Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova challenged the US White House to take seriously the use of American weapons in promoting terrorism, including the recent bombing of the Kakhovka dam in the Russian-controlled section of Kherson. She pointed to Ukrainian General Andrey Kovalchuk’s statement, published in the December 29, 2022 Washington Post, that he had used US HIMARS missiles to test damaging the Kakhovka dam, to cause flooding of Russian military positions. Minimally, the question of reckless disregard by the US is raised.
Zakharova stated: “Now, the question for Kirby, Karin Jean-Pierre, all the people who are in charge of communications at the White House... Were you aware of how American weapons, the weapons that are being supplied to Ukraine, are used? That trial tests of a terrorist attack against civilian infrastructure in third countries are being made? These are the questions that we directly pose in the public space before the White House; you must answer them.”
