White House building in Washington DC, USA. File photoWASHINGTON, Apr 22 The United States is ready to take any step to «hold Russia accountable» for the situation around Ukraine, short of direct military confrontation, said Deputy National Security Adviser Duleep Singh. we will have time to hold these people accountable for what they have done, but it will take time for our measures to work.We are not going to engage in a direct military confrontation with Russia.President Joe Biden has made it clear: anything but a direct military confrontation with the Russian Federation, we will do, we will do with our allies and we will strengthen as much as necessary,» Singh told CNN. jpg» />The EU and the US accused Russia of «global economic turmoil»The US is ready to provide Ukraine with all the resources it can, Singh 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 and, on March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
