Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov, speaking on Rossiya 1 TV, told his fellow Russians that the United States goal is the strategic defeat of Russia, to wipe Russia off the political map of the world.
“The political circles in Washington do not hide the goal of their war on the Ukrainian territory, and my tongue did not slip — to inflict a strategic defeat to Russia, to exhaust and to wear down our country. They want to drive a wedge between us and former Soviet republics, they threaten them with sanctions, they persuade them that all cooperation with us must be stopped and all ties must be cut. The Russophobes have decided to cut Russia’s name from the political map of the world. These ideas are not propaganda slogans and not a figure of speech. This is indeed a real situation in our relations,” he said bluntly.
As for the New START strategic arms treaty, Antonov stated that nothing is on the table to replace it when it expires in 2026. But, Antonov stressed, Moscow is ready to make a constructive assessment of US proposals on strategic security — as soon as Washington reconsiders its anti-Russian stance:
