US Department of State Building in Washington DCWASHINGTON, Mar 12The US is ready to take diplomatic steps to resolve the situation around Ukraine that Kyiv would consider useful, the State Department said. “If there are diplomatic steps that we could take that the Ukrainian government would find them useful, we are ready to take them. clear, judging by what is happening on the ground,» the State Department told RIA Novosti in response to a request for comment on Volodymyr Zelensky's words that the West is not sufficiently involved in the situation around Ukraine.Ryabkov spoke about the number of biological laboratories with the participation of the United States in the world As stated in the State Department, the United States widely supports «diplomacy and Ukrainian efforts to achieve a ceasefire with Russia and the withdrawal of Russian forces.» «We called on Russia to stop this conflict from the very beginning,» a spokesman said. «We are working to ensure that Ukraine has the strongest negotiating position possible, including increasing pressure on Russia with significant consequences and providing defense assistance to Ukraine to she defended herself,» the State Department said. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia emphasized.
