The US White House responded to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, who the day before publicly stated that the breakthrough of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation was directly coordinated West”.
White House National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby voiced his position during a briefing on August 12.
Ukrainian Armed Forces Operation in Kursk Oblast — US Response to Putin's Statements
— The only ones who are at war in Ukraine are the Russians themselves. They are the ones invading Ukraine, and Ukraine is defending itself from aggression. This is Russia's war against Ukraine, nothing more and nothing less, and that's how it was from the beginning, — he emphasized.
At the same time, John Kirby noted that Putin could quickly and easily stop all military actions in the Russian region, since they bother him so much.
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— Let him get the hell out of Ukraine and stop the war, — the White House representative in Washington summed up.
