Shoigu Criticizes US Aid Amid Trump’s Win and Russia’s Gains
Shoigu spoke a day after Donald Trump — highly critical of US aid to Kyiv — won the US presidential election, raising questions over long-term support for Ukraine.
Moscow has advanced rapidly on the battlefield in eastern Ukraine in recent months.
“Now when the situation in the theatre of combat is not in Kyiv’s favor, the West is faced with a choice: to continue financing (Kyiv) and the destruction of the Ukrainian population or recognize the current realities and start negotiating,” Shoigu, Moscow’s ex-defense minister, said.
He spoke at a meeting of a military alliance of ex-Soviet states.
Shoigu also said that the “collective West is losing its economic, political and moral leadership” and that Western hopes for a Russian defeat had “failed.”
Russia hopes the West will tire of supporting Kyiv militarily.
The Kremlin said Wednesday that it would judge Trump on his “actions” on the Ukraine conflict, with the Republican repeatedly promising a swift end to the conflict if he took office.
Trump has lambasted the billions of dollars of aid that the US has sent to Ukraine.
Shoigu was Russia’s defense minister during most of the Ukraine offensive but was removed by President Vladimir Putin in May and replaced with economist Andrey Belousov.
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