“That statement is fully in harmony with our position. This means that our vision of the reasons for the escalation coincides, and of course we like that,” Peskov told reporters in response to Trump’s words from an interview with Time magazine, which named the re-elected president personality of the year.
However, the Kremlin spokesman also warned the Russian public that it is still impossible to predict what decisions Trump will make after returning to the White House in January. “Only time will tell. Let’s wait for the moment when the elected president takes his place in the Oval Office,” said Peskov.
The United States allowed Ukraine to use the delivered weapons for attacks on Russian territory in the second half of November, a few weeks after the presidential elections. The Ukrainians immediately used American ATACMS and British Storm Shadow missiles to attack targets in the Kursk and Bryansk regions, the Russian state news agency TASS reminds.
According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Moscow deployed a new medium-range hypersonic ballistic missile with a non-nuclear warhead called Orešnik in response. Here, Putin is now using the West, which he accuses of escalating the conflict, as the main scarecrow, while he has eased up on the threat of nuclear weapons.
Trump sharply criticized the launch of American missiles on Russian territory
War in Ukraine
