The day after President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Washington, Russia raises its voice. Speaking to journalists, the spokesman for the Russian presidency, Dmitry Peskov, estimated that there were no “genuine calls for peace” during this visit, the first by the Ukrainian head of state since the start of the war.
The Kremlin also deplores the absence of US “warnings” to Volodymyr Zelensky against “continuing shelling of residential buildings in populated areas of Donbass,” a region in eastern Ukraine partly controlled by pro-Russian separatists and regularly attacked by Ukrainian forces. .
“This shows that the United States continues its de facto and indirect war line with Russia, down to the last Ukrainian,” the Kremlin spokesman added.
Without “willingness to listen to Russia”
According to him, the visit did not illustrate any “willingness to listen to Russia” and that Washington was waging a “de facto proxy war” against Moscow in Ukraine. “So far, we can note with regret that neither (US) President Joe Biden nor President Zelensky have said anything that could be perceived as a possible willingness to listen to Russia’s concerns,” the Russian presidential spokesman told reporters. , Dmitry Peskov.
During this trip, his first abroad since the start of the Russian offensive in February, Volydymyr Zelensky was greeted like a hero in Washington, chatting with his counterpart Joe Biden and delivering a speech to applause from US lawmakers.
The Ukrainian head of state has earned the promise of a massive support envelope of nearly $45 billion and new arms deliveries with, for the first time, the supply of the Patriot air defense system.
Source: BFM TV
