🇷🇺 Russian Ambassador to the 🇺🇸 United States Anatoly Antonov stated that the actions of the Biden administration "spur Ukrainian radicals to proceed with their terrible deeds," claiming that with every supply of Western weapons Kiev's "feeling of impunity grows stronger." Antonov added that the Minsk agreements, signed in 2014 as an attempt to end separatist fighting in eastern Ukraine, "served to give time to Kiev to enhance its military capabilities." He alleged that the West "simply deceived our country and started to purposefully weaken Russia" long before the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022. He once again accused the US of a "lack of any desire for a political settlement" of the war.