According to its own statements, Russia currently has no plans to absorb new territories into Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday, according to Russia’s Interfax news agency. On the contrary, there is “a lot of work” to wrest the annexed areas from Ukrainian control. Russia had annexed Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhia oblasts amid international protest.
No country recognizes this violation of international law. Recently, Ukraine had liberated parts of the regions from Russian occupation.
The Kremlin fears a Ukrainian attack from Crimea
Peskov literally spoke of a “liberation” of the territories occupied by Ukraine. International law, on the other hand, clearly sees Russia as the occupying power and the territories belong to Ukraine. The Kremlin spokesman also said Moscow still sees the danger of an attack on the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014. Authorities in the Crimean metropolis of Sevastopol reported again on Thursday that a Ukrainian drone had been shot down by Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.
“The risk undoubtedly remains as the Ukrainian side continues to organize terrorist attacks,” Peskov said. However, the air defense shows that the countermeasures have worked. The Kremlin spokesman also rejected statements by Germany, for example, that Ukraine should not limit itself to its own territory in its defense against Russian aggression. This would increase the conflict, Peskow warned.
Putin only wants to use nuclear weapons for his own protection
Most recently, Russian territory had been repeatedly shelled. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that the nuclear power would not use its nuclear weapons for a first strike, but only in response to its own protection. To deter the United States and the other NATO countries, Putin had nuclear weapons put on heightened readiness to prevent the West from interfering militarily in the conflict.
Source: Krone
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