The Kremlin said Thursday thatThe Russian military will decide how and when to respond to the recent . The spokesman for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskovhe has confirmed at his daily press conference that the Russian leader, Vladimir Putinhe addressed that issue on Wednesday in his telephone conversation with his American counterpart, Donald Trump.
“Yes, it was,” Peskov answered the respective question and added that it is now corresponding to the military to decide the “appropriate” form to answer and the deadlines of retaliation measures.
This is Russia’s first official comment about this issue after the US President communicated yesterday that his Russian counterpart warned him that he plans to respond to the recent Ukrainian attacks against Russian territory.
“It was one Good conversationbut not one that leads to immediate peace. The President Putin said, very firmly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on aerodromes“Trump wrote on the social network Truth Social. Shortly after publishing that message, the Republican erased him from his network and subsequently raised him without changes for still unknown reasons.
During the call, Trump assured Putin that the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, had not previously informed him of the attack against the Russian strategic aviation bases.
Restoration of damage
Russian’s Foreign Vice Minister, Serguéi Riabkovhe said, for his part, that Russia The damaged equipment will restore the attacks against airfieldsthat took place last weekend. “The team in question, as representatives of the Ministry of Defense already declared it was not destroyed, but damaged. And it will be restored,” said the diplomat, cited by the Tass agency.
Riabkov also called not to trust the information that kyiv disseminates on the consequences of the attack and in which he claims to have reached a quarantine of Russian strategic planes. “There is nothing similar or far”he said.
According to Russian military bloggers, in the weekend drone attack they resulted Damaged a dozen strategic aircraft in military airfields in Múrmansk (northern Russia) and Siberia.
Russia will not abandon negotiations
Despite the growing tension by the recent “terrorist attacks” perpetrated by kyiv in Russian territory, The Kremlin has denied that it is proposed to abandon peace negotiations with Ukraine.
“In yesterday the Foreign Minister (Serguéi Lavrov) expressed his opinion that, despite that, It is necessary to continue contacts at the technical level, a point of view that was supported by the Head of State“, Vladimir Putin, has announced Peskov.
At the same time, he stressed that “the fact that the kyiv regime has acquired all the features of a terrorist regime cannot be taken into account in the future. Will be taken into account“.
Regarding the derailment of two trains last weekend in the regions of Briansk and Kursk with a balance of seven dead and more than one hundred injured, of what Moscow accuses kyiv, Peskov has stated that, “Without a doubt, these decisions are impossible without the participation of the highest political leaders” of Ucrania.
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