(ANSA) - BERLIN, JANUARY 20 - The United States has approved the request by the Baltic countries to send American weapons to Ukraine, in the context of the threat of a Russian military offensive.
This was reported by an official of the State Department in Berlin, where US Secretary of State Antony Blinkensta holding talks on the Ukraine crisis.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin has criticized US President Joe Biden for declaring that "it will be a disaster for Russia if it invades Ukraine". According to the spokesman of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dmitri Peskov, such statements "can facilitate the destabilization of the situation". "All these declarations - said Peskov according to Tass - could contribute to a destabilization of the situation because they could instill completely wrong hopes in the hotheads of some representatives of Ukraine, of the Ukrainian leadership, who, quietly, could decide to start a civil war again in their own country and try to resolve the South-East issue by force ".Russia has long been accused of militarily supporting the separatists in the Donbass conflict. (HANDLE).