Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday that the invasion of Ukraine «would not have been necessary» if the U.S. government had exerted its influence on Kiev and «put pressure on the country in time.»
«Washington says that if there were no Russian shelling there would not have been the downing of an S-300 of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Poland. But if you follow this logic, then one would have to review the situation in another direction and one would have to conclude that if there had not been a total unwillingness on the part of the United States and NATO to address Russia’s concerns, there would not have been a special military operation in Ukraine,» he asserted.
This is how he responded during a press conference to questions about the main cause of the fall of a missile in eastern Poland, which resulted in two deaths. In this sense, he reaffirmed that the «main cause» of this situation is the actions of the United States and NATO.
«If the United States and the Alliance had put pressure on the Kiev regime and had given guarantees that they would not carry out a new civil war and an attack against their own population in two already independent republics, then there would be no special operation,» he said, referring to the name given to the invasion by the Russian government.
On this matter, he clarified that the invasion will continue, precisely, until Moscow «achieves its objectives», given that «the Ukrainian side does not wish to carry out any negotiations». «There are no public negotiations at the moment,» he stressed.
