The Kremlin accused the United States on Wednesday of “adding fuel to the fire” after the announcement of the delivery of US missiles to Ukraine, to respond to the Russian offensive.
“We believe that the United States is deliberately adding fuel to the fire… These (weapons) deliveries do not encourage the Ukrainian leadership to relaunch peace negotiations,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov said.
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“These supplies do not favor the Ukrainian leadership’s desire to resume peace talks. We believe that the US is fanning the flames with determination and diligence to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian“, he stated in his daily telephone press conference.
Peskov stated that Moscow negatively values these US plans.
The Kremlin representative added that Moscow distrusts kyivcommenting on the words of the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, who assured that he would not use multiple launch systems to attack Russian territory.
“We don’t trust. To trust you have to have the experience of fulfilled promises. Unfortunately, we totally lack this experience,” he argued.
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We believe that the US is fanning the flames with determination and diligence to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian
Peskov recalled that Zelensky promised during his election campaign to end the war in Donbas, something he did not fulfill, adding that “the Minsk agreements were not fulfilled because of the Ukrainian side.”
“That is why we do not have a sufficient trustworthy credit with respect to the Ukrainian side,” he stressed.
Regarding the risk that Ukraine uses this new US weaponry to reach Russian territory, he pointed out that “our competent entities, both the Ministry of Defense and the border guard, see the risks, systematically assess them and take the corresponding measures.”
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The eve, Zelensky assured that Ukraine “does not intend to attack Russia”commenting on statements by some US media that the HIMARS systems (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) promised by Washington to kyiv could reach Russian territory.
“We are not interested in Russia, we are not fighting on its territory,” the Ukrainian president added.
The risk of a direct crash
The Russian government also warned the United States on Wednesday of the risk of a direct clash if Washington continues to supply weapons to Ukraine.
It was the Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Riabkov, who warned this Wednesday of this risk, given what he considers a growing supply of weapons to Ukraine.
“All the supplies of weapons, which continue and are increasing, increase the risks of such a development,” Riabkov replied, quoted by the RIA Nóvosti agency, when asked if Washington’s decision to provide kyiv with missile systems increases the risk of a direct clash between Russia and the United States.
Ukrainian military in their positions not far from Kyiv (kyiv), Ukraine.
The deputy minister criticized the new package of US military aid to Ukraine worth 700 million dollars, which, according to US government sources, includes the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), High Mobility Artillery Rocket systems.
“We value this in a totally negative way, because the attempts to present this decision as containing ‘restrictions’ are worthless,” he stressed, alluding to the words of the US president, Joe Biden, about his country it does not encourage or allow Ukraine to attack beyond its borders.
Meanwhile, the Russian Strategic Forces are carrying out exercises with mobile intercontinental missile systems “Yars” in the Ivanovo region, about 200 kilometers northeast of Moscow, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.
The Yars systems “maneuver intensely” during the exercises, the portfolio said in a statement collected by the Interfax agency, which specified that about 1,000 soldiers and a hundred vehicles of different types participate in them.
“The members of the Strategic Forces rehearse the deployment of missile systems in field positions, displacements of up to 100 kilometers, changes of positions, masking and defense of these,” Defense added.
The “Yars” missiles, of which there are mobile and silo versions, have a range of up to 12,000 kilometers and can carry up to four nuclear warheads.
EFE
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