President Joe Biden’s decision to enable Ukraine to employ American long-range missiles in Russia demonstrates that his administration intends to “throw oil on the fire” of the crisis, a Kremlin spokesperson told reporters. “It is obvious the outgoing administration in the United States wants to throw oil on the fire and escalate the conflict in Ukraine,” Dmitry Peskov said. Following reports that the US is allowing Ukraine to extend the targeting of Washington-supplied missiles into Russia, a Russian politician claimed that “nothing left” of the U.S. will remain. “There will essentially be nothing left of America, which is trying to drag us into escalation. There will be no Biden or Trump. America is being inflicted with 95 percent total damage,” said Andrei Gurulev, a State Duma deputy, speaking on Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov, via state-owned station Russia-1.
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