USA: According to Democratic Congressman Seth Moulton, the US "really doesn't want Russia to lose very badly" in Ukraine. The Kremlin has repeatedly insisted that it will succeed in achieving all of the objectives of its military campaign, despite the fact that some lawmakers in Washington have called for regime change in Moscow.
"I don't know if this is good for the stability of the world after the collapse of the Russian regime," Moulton told Luke Coffey of the Hudson Institute, a research organization backed by several NATO countries and US arms producers.
Moulton cited the threat of nuclear proliferation that would come with the fall of Russia, saying that "the hopeless defeat of the Russians and the collapse of the entire regime is probably not what we really want."
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He continued, "We absolutely want Ukraine to win, we want Russia to lose, but we really don't want Russia to lose very badly.
A $40 billion military and economic aid package to Ukraine was approved last year by the House Armed Services Committee, which serves Moulton.
He advised Coffey to continue the aid and to ask the Biden administration to equip Kiev with more artillery and tanks so it can launch a counteroffensive against Russian forces this year.
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However, lawmakers from both parties have proposed more extreme measures. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham called for the assassination of Russian President Vladimir Putin last year, and a bipartisan group urged President Joe Biden last month to provide US-made fighter jets to Ukraine, a move that former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev described as a "red line". "It would put America at risk.
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Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky has repeatedly announced his intention to retake Crimea, which held a similar referendum in 2014, as well as four former Ukrainian provinces that voted to join Russia last year.
Such a move would not only be met with "inevitable retaliation using any type of weapon", in Medvedev's words, but it would also be impossible at this point in time, as Ukrainian forces are embroiled in fighting in the Donbass city of Artyomovsk. have taken place, which is known as Ukraine. Bakhmut.
The Kremlin has repeatedly stated that it will continue its special military operation in Ukraine until its objectives are met. Demilitarization of Ukraine, "demilitarization" of its leadership.
The goals are the establishment of Ukraine as a neutral state, and the protection of the Russian-speaking community in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, according to Putin's declaration last year.