Zakarova on Blinken’s Boast of Supplying Arms to Ukraine Before Russian Military Operation: No Surprise

Secretary of State Antony Blinken revealed in an interview with the New York Times published on Jan. 4 that the U.S. was supplying arms to the Kiev regime long before the beginning of the special military operation. “We made sure that well before the Russian aggression happened, starting in September and then again December, we quietly got a lot of weapons to Ukraine to make sure that they had in hand what they needed to defend themselves, things like Stingers, Javelins that were instrumental in preventing Russia from taking Kiev, from rolling over the country, erasing it from the map, and indeed pushing the Russians back,” he said. He doesn’t even mention that truce negotiations between the two sides were underway in Istanbul, talks that were sabotaged by then-U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and then-Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.