Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov rejected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s demand that Russia withdraw its troops, saying Ukraine should settle for “new realities.” File Photograph by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA-EFE
Dec. 13 (UPI) — Russia on Tuesday rejected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky‘s name to withdraw its troops by Christmas.
Zelensky referred to as for Russia to take away its troops, throughout an deal with earlier than G7 leaders on Monday.
“The occupier should go away. It can actually occur. I see no cause why Russia shouldn’t do it now — at Christmas. The reply from Moscow will present what they really need — additional confrontation with the world, or lastly [a] cessation of the aggression. The one who introduced the conflict upon us has to take it away,” he mentioned.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, nevertheless, rejected Zelensky’s suggestion on Tuesday, saying it was “out of the query” and Ukraine should settle for “new realities,” concerning annexed territory.
“These realities point out that the Russian Federation has new topics they appeared on account of referendums that happened in these territories,” Peskov mentioned.
Peskov additionally denied accusations from Ukraine’s state nuclear energy firm that Russia is inserting heavy weapons on the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Energy Plant in a report posted to Telegram by the official Russian information company TASS.
Three civilians within the Kherson area had been killed by Russian shelling on Monday, in line with regional navy administrator Yaroslav Yanushevych.
Russian forces have launched renewed strikes with a recent batch of Iranian-supplied drones, in line with the Ukrainian Air Power, whereas Britain has sanctioned a number of Russian people linked to drone and missile assaults on Ukrainian civilian targets.
“Twelve senior commanders of Russian navy forces, together with models implicated in assaults on Ukrainian cities, have been sanctioned. Main Normal Robert Baranov, recognized by a Bellingcat investigation because the commander of a unit answerable for programming and focusing on Russian cruise missiles, is amongst these focused,” learn a press release from the British international workplace on Tuesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has canceled his yearly end-of-year press convention for the primary time in a decade. The British Ministry of Protection steered the cancelation was as a result of rising discontent with the conflict in Ukraine.
“Though the questions are virtually actually vetted prematurely, the cancelation is probably going as a result of growing issues about he prevalence of anti-war feeling in Russia,” the ministry tweeted on Tuesday.
