Peskov: Moscow will not participate in Western nuclear rhetoric

The Kremlin said today that its “special military operation” in Ukraine it will not terminate if Kyiv blocks the talks, adding that “it takes two sides to negotiate.”

“Either we will wait for the current president to change his position or we will wait for the next president to change his position in the interest of the Ukrainian people,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree yesterday, Monday, officially declaring any negotiations between Kiev and President Vladimir Putin “impossible”, but generally left the door open to talks with Russia.

Peskov also said Putin is “likely” to sign a law to integrate four Ukrainian regions into Russia later in the day.

The Kremlin also described as a “positive step” the fact that the founder of Tesla Elon Musk outlined a possible peace deal, hours after Kyiv rejected Musk’s call for a negotiated settlement to Russia’s seven-month conflict with Ukraine. Peskov told a conference call with reporters that Moscow had always been open to a negotiated end to the conflict.

The Kremlin also said it did not want to buy into the pro-nuclear rhetoric being peddled by Western powers and media organizations, responding to a question about press reports that Russia was preparing to demonstrate its willingness to use nuclear weapons in the conflict. of with Ukraine.

The Times newspaper reported yesterday, Monday, that NATO has warned its members that President Vladimir Putin is about to conduct a nuclear test on Ukraine’s border. Asked about this publication, Peskov replied that Russia does not want to participate in Western exercises in “nuclear rhetoric”as he characterized them.

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