OREANDA-NEWS The decisions of the United States and its Western allies made during the NATO summit encourage Ukraine to continue the conflict with Russia. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, during a briefing of the diplomatic department.

"We still see the reality: NATO uses Ukraine as an expendable material in the geopolitical confrontation with Russia. The decisions agreed at the summit are designed to encourage Ukrainians to continue fighting," the representative said.

Zakharova also recalled that there is still no common position among NATO members on the need and volume of assistance to Ukraine, as well as on joining the alliance.

Earlier, she said that Ukraine's "irreversible path" to NATO, announced at the alliance summit in Washington, is a cliff-edge road. "The Kiev regime was promised an "irreversible road to the alliance." To be honest, I do not know what kind of irreversible road to the alliance is, but it seems to me that the only association that appears is the road to the cliff," Zakharova said.