Says US Wants To Turn Kyiv Into A Colony, Russian Duma Chairman: Washington Doesn't Need An Independent Ukraine

Vyacheslav Volodin. (Wikimedia Commons/duma.gov.ru)

JAKARTA - The United States leadership wants to make Ukraine its colony, extorting all resources from the country and using them to undermine Russia, wrote Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin on his Telegram channel.

As the politician noted, US President Joe Biden said, America wants to see a "democratic, independent, sovereign and prosperous Ukraine".

"The US had eight years to make Ukraine 'democratic, self-sufficient, sovereign and prosperous', when after the coup American advisers and instructors actually took control of the Kyiv regime," he wrote, TASS reported on June 2.

"But instead of developing the country, Ukraine, which has great potential, was looted," said Volodin.

"No, Washington doesn't need an independent Ukraine. The US leadership wants to make it its colony. To squeeze all the resources out of that country and use them exclusively to weaken Russia," Volodin stressed.

According to Volodin, "the whole world has seen what democracy (the United States) has brought in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Yugoslavia."

"None of these countries, which Washington also wants to make democratic and prosperous, won. Quite the contrary. Once developing countries fell into chaos and destruction, their citizens faced a humanitarian catastrophe. For example, in Afghanistan, for two twenty years from living American troops more than 250,000 civilians died, the population became impoverished," criticized Volodin.