Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Western supplies to Ukraine would fundamentally change nothing in the war
Western countries supplying Ukraine with additional tanks will not change the course of the war and the West will regret its “illusion”. that Ukraine will beat Russia on the battlefield, he said earlier today Kremlin.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday that his government expects “strong decisions” after the meeting today in Germany of the so-called “Ramstein” group, i.e. the defense ministers and high-ranking military officials of about 50 countries, coordinated by the US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and subject discussion the strengthening of the Ukrainian forces with modern tanks.
The representative of the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov he told reporters: “We have repeatedly emphasized that such supplies will not fundamentally change anything, but will add problems to Ukraine and its people.”
Asked if the supply of advanced weaponry to Ukraine means that war escalates Peskov replied: “You are right, indeed evolves into an upward spiral. We see an increasing indirect– and sometimes direct– involvement of NATO countries in this conflict…We see a fixation on the dramatic delusion that Ukraine can succeed on the battlefield. This is a dramatic illusion of the Western community that it will regret at least once, we are sure of it.”
As Peskov said, the way to avoid further escalation is to take into account the concerns that Russia had expressed at the end of 2021, a few weeks before its armed forces were sent to Ukraine.
Russia argues that it had to react to protect Russian-speakers in eastern Ukraine from persecution and to prevent an aggressive West from using Ukraine to threaten Russia.
Kyiv and Western countries call Moscow’s complaints groundless justifications for an imperialist-style land grab.
In addition, the Kremlin announced that its relations with the US are at an all-time low in the middle of Joe Biden’s presidency and that there is currently no hope of improvement.
Already strained US-Russian relations have further deteriorated over the past year since Russia invaded Ukraine and Western countries responded by imposing a series of economic sanctions against Moscow and supplying Ukraine with arms.
“Bilateral relations are probably at their worst to date, unfortunately. There is no hope of improvement in the near future,” Peskov told reporters.
While there have been some diplomatic successes, such as prisoner exchanges, contacts at the highest level have been few and far between.
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