What started as a military operation has escalated after the West became a participant, Dmitry Peskov has said
Russiaβs military operation in Ukraine has turned into full-fledged war after the West became a participant in the conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with national media published on Friday.
Moscow will continue to pursue its goal of ensuring that the Ukrainian military cannot pose a threat to Russian citizens or territory, the spokesman told the Argumenti i Fakty newspaper, noting that the country now has four new federal subjects which must be protected and fully liberated from Kievβs forces.
Peskov stressed that Russia cannot allow the existence on its borders of a state that publicly claims it will seize the Crimean Peninsula as well as Russiaβs new territories, referring to the Donetsk and Lugansk Peopleβs Republics and Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
