US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin gives a briefing at the Pentagon. File photoWASHINGTON, Mar 19The US has made it clear that supporting the Russian operation in Ukraine is a «bad choice,» Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin told CNN.
"I don't want to speculate or go into hypothetical reasoning. I hope China doesn't support", Austin said.
He said that the United States made it clear to China that supporting Russia «would be a bad choice.» Earlier, US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping had a conversation. The heads of state talked via video link for about two hours. A senior official of the US administration told reporters that Biden did not put forward any demands during the conversation with Xi Jinping, but only outlined Washington's vision regarding the current situation around Ukraine. At the same time, the official representative of the American administration, Jen Psaki, warned that any help to Russia from China against the backdrop of events in Ukraine would have «consequences». US demands geopolitical suicide from ChinaRussia 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. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. needed, said the head of the Pentagon