By Don Silas The four European leaders visiting Kyiv have been asked to encourage Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to take a real ...
By Don Silas
The four European leaders visiting Kyiv have been asked to
encourage Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to take a real look at the
situation rather than further pumping Ukraine with weapons, the Kremlin said on
Thursday.
“Promising weapons supplies will prolong the suffering of
the people. It will cause more damage to this country,’’ Kremlin spokesperson
Dmitry Peskov said as quoted by NAN.
The delivery of more modern and heavier weapons remained a
key demand of Kyiv as the leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Romania
visited.
Russia had repeatedly warned Western countries against
supplying more arms to the Ukrainian forces, and the Russian military reported
on a daily basis that it was destroying Western weapons in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had also warned French
President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz against increased
arms supplies to Ukraine.
He said that it could lead to further destabilisation of the
country.
The Kremlin said Putin made his comments during a three-way
telephone call with the French and German leaders on Saturday in which he
warned against the continued transfers of Western weapons to Ukraine.
He blamed the conflict’s disruption to global food supplies
on Western sanctions.
Putin told Macron and Scholz that continuing arms supplies
to Ukraine was “dangerous”, and he warned “of the risks of further
destabilisation of the situation and aggravation of the humanitarian crisis,”
the Kremlin said.
During the 80-minute call, Macron and Scholz, in return,
urged an immediate cease-fire in Ukraine and a withdrawal of Russian troops
from the country, according to the German chancellor’s spokesperson.
Western arms supply to Ukraine was posing a threat to
European security, Russia said after warning any attempt to “interfere” in the
country would be met with a swift response from Moscow.
“In itself, the tendency to pump weapons, including heavy
weapons, to Ukraine and other countries are actions that threaten the security
of the continent and provoke instability,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov
said.
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