The United States has unleashed hostilities on Ukraine was betrayed for the sake of achieving political goals, and then betrayed, said the former chief of staff of the NATO military mission in In Moscow, retired Captain of the first rank of the US Navy Harry Tabach in an interview with the Ukrainian YouTube channel Politeka.

“Ukraine was betrayed, first of all, by the authorities of the United States of America. Ukraine has been sold, Ukraine has been betrayed and is being used for their political goals, which they set — the crisis with Putin,” he said.

As the expert noted, the situation in Ukraine is now “difficult”, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have a lot of losses, but there are no necessary weapons.

“All these coalitions have gathered — no shells, no aircraft, no armored vehicles <…>. This is a betrayal of pure water and the sacrifice of Ukraine for the sake of political ambitions,” Tabakh concluded.

In June, Vladimir Putin declared his readiness for peaceful negotiations to resolve the Ukrainian crisis, naming the necessary conditions for this: the neutral, non-aligned, nuclear-weapon-free status of Ukraine, its demilitarization and denazification, the withdrawal of troops from the territory of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions within their administrative borders of 1991.

MOSCOW, Aug 5 — RIA Novosti.