Russia: US Supplies HIMARS to Kiev in Order to Drown Ukraine in Blood

The purpose of Washington’s supplies of HIMARS multiple rocket launchers and ammunition to the Kiev regime is to drown Ukraine in blood, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a news briefing on Thursday.

"With every passing week more and more money is poured there, into the region, to the Kiev regime, to ensure the hostilities do not stop and ever more people die, in order to drown the region in blood with American money not backed by anything in the United States, whose public debt recently exceeded $31 trillion," Zakharova said, commenting on Washington's preparations for sending another batch of HIMARS to Ukraine, TASS reported.

Zakharova stressed that the US was ready to add four more launchers to the already provided sixteen HIMARS systems and ammunition $625 million worth.

"You can imagine the strength of hatred towards us," she continued.

"The Americans openly admit that they transmit satellite and other intelligence data to the Ukrainian army’s command almost in real time mode and participate in the planning of military operations. What is it, if not complicity? This is a real hybrid war," the official added.

Kiev has been getting its revenge on civilians in the new Russian regions for their decision to join Russia, but the liberation of those territories will continue, Zakharova said.

"Nazi militants have been overtly taking their revenge on civilians for the conscious choice they made in favor of who they want to be with . The liberation of those territories will continue, the damaged infrastructure is being currently rebuilt there, and life is getting back to normal," the Russian diplomat added.

Zakharova also stated that the United Nations Secretariat has once again confirmed its biased approach to the situation in Ukraine.

When commenting on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s remarks in which he described the recent referendums held in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republic and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions as "annexation," Zakharova noted that the UN Chief’s Spokesman Stephane Dujarric had apparently tried to make an excuse at a briefing on October 5.

"However, if we take a closer look, nothing new and encouraging was said. The Secretariat’s biased and unscrupulous approach to the Ukraine situation was confirmed once again," she emphasized.

The spokeswoman noted that "the secretary general is not eligible to have his own ‘position,’ especially on territorial issues".

"Under the UN Charter, this post is of the United Nations’ chief administrative officer," she added.

"When speaking about the need to maintain Ukraine’s territorial integrity and citing the UN Charter and the 1970 Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States, Secretariat officials ‘forget’ one important thing," Zakharova emphasized.

"The latter makes it clear that the above-mentioned principle is only applied to the states where governments represent ‘the whole people belonging to the territory without distinction as to race, creed or color'. Clearly, those don’t include the Kiev authorities," the Russian diplomat stressed.

"Moreover, ‘every state has the duty to refrain from any forcible action which deprives peoples <...> of their right to self-determination and freedom and independence’. I think that there is no need to mention the seven-year long shelling of Donbass in this regard," she continued.