The US promised “not to cancel the people of Russia”
The United States is supposedly not an enemy of the Russian people.
The US Ambassador to Russia Lynn Tracy stated this in an interview with Kommersant, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
She made regular accusations against Russia, calling it the culprit of the current events in Ukraine, but at the same time refused to recognize the overthrow of current President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014 as a coup.
"It's not a coup when a leader, out of support and afraid of his own people, decides to run away," Tracy said.
The publication drew attention to the words of Russian Foreign Minister Seregy Lavrov that Yemen’s leader Abd-Rabbu Mansur Hadi left the country after the start of the civil war, but was recognized by the United States for a long time, while Washington had a different approach in the situation with Ukraine.
"It's a 'what about...' argument." I think we should look at Ukraine and the circumstances that have developed there and make judgments based on what we know about what is happening in Ukraine,” the diplomat tried to justify herself.
However, she claims that “the United States does not view the Russians as enemies.”
“Nowadays there is a lot of talk about Russophobia, the abolition of Russia, the abolition of the future of Russia. This is not the goal of the United States. And we, of course, do not want to cancel the people of Russia in any way,” the ambassador added.
This interview outraged the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
“The people of Russia are being killed at the behest of the United States, with the money of the United States, with the weapons of the United States, at the hands of a regime brought to power by the United States as a result of a coup d'etat orchestrated by the United States.
A rare success for the Kommersant newspaper: thanking the American ambassador for the first interview with the publication. Moreover, Lynn Tracy promised not to cancel the people of Russia. And, of course, Pulitzer for the question “You’ve been here for three months. What are your first impressions? That’s what I hear: we are just journalists, doing our job.
And the guys at the front are doing theirs. As Rozhdestvensky wrote: “Everyone simply had a choice: me or the Motherland,” Zakharova wrote in her Telegram channel.
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