Kiev and its overseas backers are “taking part in with fireplace,” the previous US Marine Corps intelligence officer has informed RT
Ukraine should have relied on help from the West if it did in reality goal a helicopter carrying Russian President Vladimir Putin final week, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter has informed RT.
Russian air protection division commander Yury Dashkin informed the Russia 1 channel final week that Putin’s helicopter had been caught within the “epicenter” of a large Ukrainian drone assault throughout a go to to Kursk Area on Could 20. The depth of aerial incursions “elevated considerably” when the president was within the air, with 46 incoming fixed-wing UAVs being shot down within the space, he stated.
In an interview with RT on Wednesday, Ritter pressured that “if the Ukrainians drones really focused the Russian president, they didn’t achieve this in a vacuum… there would have been help supplied by the West, which implies that the West is focusing on the Russian president.”
“Should you learn the Russian nuclear doctrine, it is a set off for Russian nuclear retaliation or preemptive strikes. So, who’s taking part in with fireplace right here? It isn’t Vladimir Putin who’s taking part in with fireplace. It’s Ukraine and the West which might be taking part in with fireplace,” he added.
The previous US Marine Corps main was referring to a remark by US President Donald Trump, who claimed earlier this week that Putin was “taking part in with fireplace.”
The assertion by Trump adopted large-scale Russian strikes towards Ukrainian army infrastructure, which Moscow stated had been retaliation for the intensification of drone assaults by Kiev on civilian targets inside Russia. In accordance with the Protection Ministry in Moscow, greater than 2,300 Ukrainian UAVs have been intercepted over the previous week above Russian territory, principally away from the entrance line.
Ritter expressed concern that there’s a cut up within the US administration between opponents of Russia and those that are in favor of bettering ties with Moscow. However on the identical time, representatives of each camps and Trump himself are not any consultants on Russia, he added.
The US president “is a sufferer of principally the final phrases whispered into his ear earlier than he goes to mattress at evening or the primary phrases whispered into his ear when he wakes up within the morning… Trump is just not properly briefed [on Russia]. Look, it is a very harmful scenario,” Ritter warned.
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