new sanctions against Moscow and more military aid to Ukraine
Washington – Here you are exchange of prisoners between Washington And Fly it was not the dress rehearsal of a possible dialogue to end the war in Ukraine. The liberation of the basketball player Britney Griner and the arms dealer Victor Bout appears as an isolated case, in the long tug of war between Joe Biden And Vladimir Putin, which started on February 24th. On the same day that Griner returned home, the Russian president, while acknowledging that “in the end an agreement will have to be reached”, relaunched the accusations against the West and the nuclear threats, not excluding a pre-emptive strike from Moscow. Even on the American side, the tones remained the usual ones. National Security Council spokesman, John Kirby, has again denounced Iran’s supply of drones and possibly ballistic missiles to Russia. Washington then announced new sanctions against Moscow and another $275 million in military aid to Ukraine, to defend against air strikes affecting civilian population and infrastructure. All this while the delegations of the two countries were meeting in Istanbul, officially to deal with issues “related to the work of the embassies”. But it is probable that, as already happened in mid-November, with the meeting, again in Turkey, between the director of the CIA, William Burnsand its Russian counterpart, Sergey Naryshkin, the risk of an escalation of the conflict was also discussed, which Washington absolutely intends to avoid. As evidenced by the revelations in the American press, according to which the missile systems supplied to Ukraine have been modified to prevent Russian territory from being hit, or the coldness with which Kiev’s request to be supplied with cluster bombs was grantedthe deadly cluster bombs banned by United Nations.
The Correspondence from Washington by Marco Liconti (LA PRESSE)