US lawmakers’ support for $US60.84 billion ($A94.83 billion) more in aid for Ukraine shows Washington is wading much deeper into a hybrid war against Moscow that will end in humiliation on a par with the Vietnam or Afghanistan conflicts, Russia says.
President Vladimir Putin’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine has touched off the worst fall-out in relations between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, according to Russian and US diplomats.
On Saturday, the US House of Representatives passed with broad bipartisan support a $US95 billion ($A148 billion) legislative package providing security assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan over bitter objections from some far-right Republicans.
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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said it was clear that the US wanted Ukraine “to fight to the last Ukrainian” including with attacks on Russian sovereign territory and civilians.
“Washington’s deeper and deeper immersion in the hybrid war against Russia will …