Western sanctions will never force Russia to change its position on Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
Responding to a barrage of Western sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peshkov said: “They think they will force us to change our position. That is out of the question.”
Peshkov told reporters that Russian President Vladimir Putin was briefed on the first round of talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegates on Monday, but it was too early to judge the outcome.
There are no plans for talks between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, he said, adding that Moscow still recognizes Zelensky as Ukraine’s leader.
Zelensky, he said, could have prevented further losses if he had ordered the weapons to be dropped.
Ukraine has refused to surrender and its forces have strongly resisted Russia’s attack from the north, east and south, which Moscow describes as a special operation to demilitarize and “de-Nazify” the country – a justification that rejected by Kyiv and the West as war propaganda.
Peshkov dismissed allegations of Russian strikes on civilian targets and the use of cluster munitions as fake. He categorically denied that Russia had committed war crimes.
Ukraine says large numbers of civilians have been killed. Peshkov said, without providing evidence, that Ukrainian nationalist groups were using people as human shields.
Peshkov declined to comment on whether the Kremlin considered Kyiv to be under Nazi control, referring the question to the Russian military.
Source: Capital
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