The White House National Security Council’s strategic communications coordinator, John Kirby, responded to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent accusations that “Western intelligence agencies” were involved in “terrorist attacks” carried out in Russia, saying on Wednesday that the United States will not “allow or encourage Ukrainians to strike outside Ukraine,” Reuters and CNN reported.

At a meeting of Russia’s Security Council on Wednesday with the leaders of four Ukrainian regions annexed by Moscow last year, Putin accused Ukraine of committing crimes against Russian administrators, security officials, journalists and teachers with the help of Western intelligence services.

“In addition, neo-Nazis and their accomplices operate not only on the territory of the new subjects of the Federation, but also commit crimes in other regions,” Putin said, also referring to the Ukrainian regions that Russia claims to annex. as well as the rest of the Russian regions

Russia often accuses Ukraine of killing civilians during bombings in parts of Ukraine controlled by Russia and in Russian border regions near Ukraine.

“There is every reason to say that the resources of third countries, Western special services, are engaged in the preparation of such subversive and terrorist acts,” Putin said.

Putin’s comments came three days after Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, whose real name is Maxim Fomin, was killed in an explosion in St. Petersburg that Russian officials blamed on Ukraine.

During a conversation with journalists on Wednesday, Kirby emphasized that the involvement of US special services was intended to help Ukrainians protect their territory.

“After the start of this war, we provided intelligence support to the Ukrainian armed forces so they could better defend themselves, conduct operations and continue to try to retake territory that the Russians illegally seized from them when they invaded. And I won’t go into the details of what that information is or how it’s provided, but it’s meant to help them … protect their territory,” he said. Kirby stated.

“We do not allow and do not encourage Ukrainians to strike outside Ukraine,” he added.

Putin: The EU and the USA initiated a geopolitical confrontation with Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin made it clear Wednesday to new US and EU ambassadors that their countries are responsible for the sharp deterioration in relations since Russia sent its military into Ukraine last year.

“The European Union has initiated a geopolitical confrontation with Russia,” Putin said during a speech in the Kremlin, noting that relations with the EU, Ukraine’s ally, “have deteriorated sharply in recent years.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin also told new US Ambassador Linney Tracy at a ceremony in the Kremlin that US support for the 2014 revolution in Ukraine led to the current situation where Russia and Ukraine are in conflict.

According to him, relations are in a “deep crisis”, which is “based on fundamentally different approaches to the formation of the modern world order”.

Russia says it was forced to intervene in Ukraine to stop Western meddling, which has become a threat to its security.

The West and Kyiv dismissed it as a baseless pretext for a war of aggression, and the West imposed a wave of economic sanctions and began supplying Ukraine with modern weapons and other resources to counter Russian forces.

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