The US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, and Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, Dmitry Kuleba, signed a “Strategic Partnership Document” on Wednesday. In it, they agree that Kiev owns Crimea and that the two countries are to expand ten different spheres of activity, leading with “political, security [and] defense.” Further, they are to hold Russia responsible for conflict in the Donbass and to deploy “a range of substantive measures to prevent external direct and hybrid aggression against Ukraine.” The meaning of the fashionable term “hybrid aggression” is unclear, but its use is clearly a case of direct aggression against the English language.
Russia’s ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, responded Thursday morning that the “Strategic Partnership Document” signed by the US and Ukraine diplomats is merely “a set of slogans – harmful ones…. [I]n almost every line there is a geopolitical tool to oppose Russia…. [P]lans to supply weapons to the regime in Kiev will only worsen the situation in southeastern Ukraine. We believe that another opportunity to encourage Kiev to stop the war has been missed.”
