White House Press Secretary Jen Psakia during a White House briefingMOSCOW, May 10A press briefing by White House spokesperson Jen Psaki, in which she tried to criticize Russian President Vladimir Putin's speech at the Victory Day parade on Red Square, caused a negative reaction from the Americans. The day before, answering journalists' questions, Psaki accused the Russian leader of trying to «distort history» . She also assured the media that the White House is doing everything possible to help Kyiv, mentioning a new Lend-Lease law for Ukraine that makes it easier to provide military assistance to it.
GT: American journalist gave away Biden's real mission in UkraineWashington's position did not find a response among commentators on the Internet. American social media users have spoken sharply negatively about the Biden administration. «Instead of trying to stop the crisis through negotiations and the delivery of humanitarian aid, Washington is heating up the situation,» they wrote in the comments. world peace,” another user reproachfully noted. “Thanks to Mr. President for inciting a protracted proxy conflict,” wrote one of the commentators. At the same time, readers of the British Daily Mail newspaper took up arms against Psaki because the address of the Russian leader. «Yes, the entire Biden administration is one continuous factory for the production of disinformation,» a user of the newspaper's website expressed the opinion. «Who, but Psaki certainly knows how to distort and distort history. NATO and the United States are lying, not Putin,» they concluded in the comments to the article.
Why Biden is afraid to be in the same photo with PutinOn the eve of Putin congratulated the Russians on Victory Day. In his speech, the president recalled that Moscow «always advocated the creation of a system of equal and indivisible security» and offered Western countries an agreement on security guarantees, but was not heard. According to him, in Kyiv they announced the possible acquisition of nuclear weapons, which is unacceptable for Russia, and the North Atlantic Alliance «began active military development of the territories adjacent to us.» In other words, an «absolutely unacceptable threat to us» was being created right at the borders of Russia, Putin noted. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian military strikes only on military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. The ministry called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation. Against this background, the United States and its NATO allies continue to pump weapons to Ukraine. The day before, President Joe Biden signed the Lend-Lease Act. As the head of the Pentagon stated, the United States seeks to weaken Russia so that in the future «it could not take such actions as in Ukraine.» Moscow has repeatedly stated that the supply of Western weapons only prolongs the conflict, and the transport of weapons becomes a legitimate target.
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