US does not need an independent Ukraine, Volodin said

Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin . File photoMOSCOW, June 2The US leadership wants to make Ukraine its own colony, squeeze all the resources out of the country and use it solely to weaken Russia, said State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin. resources and use it solely to weaken Russia,» he wrote on Telegram.American society is split, Volodin said, Volodin added that the countries that Washington wanted to make «democratic and prosperous» plunged into chaos and faced a humanitarian catastrophe. «The whole world has seen what American-style democracy has led to in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria , Yugoslavia. None of these states, which Washington also wanted to make democratic and prosperous, won. Exactly the opposite. Once developing countries plunged into chaos and devastation, their citizens faced a humanitarian catastrophe. For example, in Afghanistan, for twenty years of American troops more than 250 thousand civilians died, the population became impoverished,» he said. According to him, eight years after the coup d'etat, during which the United States «led the Kyiv regime,» Ukraine was plundered. «The United States had 8 years to make Ukraine democratic, independent, sovereign and prosperous, when, after the coup d'état, American advisers and instructors actually dressed by the Kyiv regime. But instead of developing the country, Ukraine, which has great potential, was plundered. Unwanted mass media were closed, independent journalists were killed, political parties were banned. And no one from the corrupt government thought about the Ukrainian people,» Volodin summed up.