“Today no one hides the true objectives of the White House policy towards us. On all TV channels, political commentators talk about the need to escalate the US proxy war against Russia,” he said.

In an interview for the TASS agency collected by CNN, Antonov stressed that Washington is using the war in Ukraine for its “war of agents” against Russia, which could lead to “a clash between the two great powers.”

Placing full responsibility for the tensions on the United States, Antonov has pointed out that Russia is limiting itself to trying to ensure that Moscow’s “concerns” regarding national security “are not ignored.”

However, Antonov has lamented that relations between the two powers are going through a kind of “ice age”, and has denounced that the work of the Russian diplomatic legation on US soil is carried out in an “atmosphere of hostility and mistrust”.

Regarding the visit of the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, to Washington to meet with his American counterpart, Joe Biden, Antonov has criticized that the trip shows that neither Ukraine nor the United States “are ready for peace.”

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