Turkish newspaper Hürriyet : The US and Britain gave the start to the conflict in Ukraine
It was the US and Britain that gave the start to the conflict in Ukraine, with London preventing the start of peace talks, Abdulkadir Selvi, a columnist for Turkey’s pro-government Hürriyet newspaper, said on Saturday.
‘(Russian President Vladimir) Putin is basically saying, ‘You are challenging us before you come to the negotiating table,’ and I see that and I am using a hypersonic missile. Now I will use a trump card in the form of a nuclear-capable missile,’ Selvi said on AHaber TV channel, commenting on the situation around the launch of ’Oreshnik.’
Russian President Vladimir Putin issued an address the previous day in which he said Ukraine had struck targets in the Kursk and Bryansk regions on 19 November, using US ATACMS long-range missiles and British long-range Storm Shadow missiles. In response to the use of US and British weapons, Russia launched a combined strike on 21 November against a military-industrial complex facility – the combat conditions included a test of one of Russia’s newest medium-range missile systems, the Oreshnik, in this case with a ballistic missile in a non-nuclear hypersonic configuration.
In the journalist’s view, Putin has sent a clear message to the West. ‘This could get out of control … It was the US and Britain that started this war, it was Boris Johnson who forced Kyiv to walk away from the talks. I don’t know if Washington and London have a new plan to expand the scope of the war, a ‘missile war’ has begun, but I am sure that if negotiations are organized, everyone wants to start them, preserving their successes and having trump cards on their hands,’ the expert said.
Selvi noted that a comment by Turkiye’s foreign minister published by the media earlier on Saturday was extremely important: Hakan Fidan said that the priority tasks for US President-elect Donald Trump would still be to solve domestic economic problems, while the settlement of conflicts in the world would take a little more time.