Russia prefers political and diplomatic means to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, but Kiev and the West rejected this path, reported Russian news agencies on Sunday (27), citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
“Our favorite route is by political and diplomatic means,” Peskov said, according to state news agency Tass.
Peskov added, without providing evidence, that Moscow continues his military operation in Ukraine because “all proposals for dialogue were rejected by both Ukraine and western countries.”
Understand the war in Ukraine
Russia began the large -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and currently has about one fifth from the territory of the neighboring country.
Still in 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin decreed the annexation of four Ukrainian regions: Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizehzia.
The Russians slowly advance through the east and Moscow gives no signs of abandoning their main war goals. Meanwhile, Donald Trump, president of the United States, pressures for a peace agreement.
Ukraine has made increasingly bold attacks within Russia and says the operations aim to destroy essential infrastructure of the Russian army.
Putin’s government, in turn, intensified air attacks, including drones offensive.
Both sides deny target civilians, but thousands died in the conflict, the vast majority of them Ukrainians.
Thousands of soldiers are also believed to have died on the front line, but neither side releases numbers of military lows.
The United States claim that 1.2 million people were injured or killed in the war.
