“It can be said that there is significant progress towards demilitarization,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
The Kremlin said today that Russia has carried out significant progress towards the “demilitarization” of Ukraine; one of the goals declared by President Vladimir Putin when he launched his war against Ukraine ten months ago.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov gave the assessment of Russia’s military progress when asked during a press conference about comments by Putin, who said on Thursday that Ukraine’s defense capabilities were close to zero.
“It can be said that there is significant progress towards demilitarization”Peskov replied.
Ukraine’s own defense capabilities—its military industrial complex—have been severely damaged by Russian missile strikes.
But the West has sent tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons to Ukraine, and US President Joe Biden this week promised to give her the US Patriot anti-aircraft missile system and pledged to continue its support.
Putin called the Patriot system “pretty old” and said that Russia will adapt to it.
After suffering a series of defeats in what Moscow calls its “special military operation”, Russia is seeking a victory on the battlefield in eastern Ukraine where its forces have been trying for months to capture the small town of Bakhmut.
Biden, who has said he is ready to talk to Putin if the Russian leader is serious about finding a way to end the war, has spoken of the difficulty he might face in finding a way to keep up the pretense of to end the conflict.
Putin said yesterday that he wants to end the war as quickly as possible and that this should come through diplomatic means. The United States said he has given “absolutely no indication that he is willing to negotiate.”
Peskov said Russia has no knowledge of a Ukrainian peace plan that, according to the Wall Street Journal, Kyiv is preparing to propose in February.
He said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had so far ignored the “realities” of the situation — a reference to Russia’s announced annexation of four partially occupied territories, a move that Kyiv and the West have rejected as illegal.
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