The United States and its allies want to announce new economic sanctions once morest Russia “this week” while Ukraine will receive more military assistance, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan announced on Monday. .
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And this while, according to him, Russia has changed its military strategy and will now “concentrate its offensive” in particular on eastern Ukraine.
The senior adviser to the American president indicated that the discussions between Westerners at the present time focused in particular on possible measures “related to energy”, a very sensitive subject for Europeans, who are very dependent on Russian gas.
Jake Sullivan insisted on the search for “consensus” with the European Union, which for its part is discussing “emergency” new sanctions once morest Moscow.
He also promised “further announcements of additional military assistance in the coming days” for Ukraine, without giving further details, noting that the equipment intended for the Ukrainian army might come from the United States itself or be sent from other countries.
National Security Advisor Joe Biden also assured that Russia “is in the process of repositioning its forces to focus its offensive on eastern and parts of southern Ukraine”.
“Russia tried to subjugate all of Ukraine and failed,” he said, believing that this new phase of the Russian military offensive “might last for months or more”.
Jake Sullivan, however, clarified that, according to Washington, “Moscow will continue air strikes and missile fire on the rest of the country to cause military and economic damage and also, clearly, to sow terror”.
Like US President Joe Biden a few hours ago, he called for the investigation of Russian “war crimes” in Ukraine.
He said the International Criminal Court – of which the United States is not a member – was “one of the places” where war crimes have been tried, but considered that there were also “other mechanisms. »
Jake Sullivan further said: “We have seen atrocities, we have seen war crimes, we have not seen so far a level of attack on the life of the Ukrainian people that reaches the level of genocide. But it’s something we continue to monitor.”
