“We are in a state of war. Yes, it began as a special military operation, but as soon as this group was formed and the collective West became a participant in it on the side of Ukraine, this became a war for us,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday in an interview.
Peskov made the comments after the aggressor state carried out what was probably the largest concerted attack on the neighboring country’s energy infrastructure overnight. He stated that the war goal was the complete “liberation” of the four regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, which the country had annexed in violation of international law a year and a half ago. Although Russia has recently made progress in the fighting against Ukraine due, among other things, to an acute shortage of weapons, it is far from completely dominating these four Ukrainian regions.
West supports Ukraine
Peskov also once again questioned the existence of Ukraine. Russia cannot allow the existence of a country on its borders that is ready to use any means to take over the Crimean peninsula. The Ukrainian peninsula was suddenly conquered and annexed by Russia in 2014. Russia’s actions that violate international law have not been recognized by the international community. Western states support Ukraine, which is now also an EU candidate country, in its legitimate right to self-defense.
