04:47Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitri Peskov said Moscow was 'grateful' to the US for its peaceful efforts, adding that European countries 'daily provoke the Kiev regime to continue' the Ukrainian conflict, during a press briefing in Moscow on Wednesday.
"President Putin has repeatedly said that he is open to transferring the entire process to a political and diplomatic track. There are problems with this at the moment. And these problems are not our fault. The problem is that the European countries daily provoke the Kiev regime to continue the war. Under these circumstances, we do not currently see any alternatives to the current pause. And here, of course, we are grateful to the United States for repeatedly declaring at various levels its readiness to continue to promote a peaceful settlement," he said.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova also said during a press briefing that European support for a potential delivery of US Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine demonstrated a 'lack of political will for peace in the West'.
Vladimir Putin has said that the potential delivery of such missiles would negatively affect relations between Moscow and Washington. Donald Trump initially said that he had 'sort of' made a decision about Tomahawks but wanted to know what Ukraine planned to do with the missiles - but later said that it could be a 'new step of aggression' and said he would need to talk to Russia first. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to meet with the US president at the White House on Friday.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
'Europe's provoking Kiev daily into continuing the conflict' - Kremlin's Peskov says Russia 'grateful to US for promoting peace'
Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitri Peskov said Moscow was 'grateful' to the US for its peaceful efforts, adding that European countries 'daily provoke the Kiev regime to continue' the Ukrainian conflict, during a press briefing in Moscow on Wednesday.
"President Putin has repeatedly said that he is open to transferring the entire process to a political and diplomatic track. There are problems with this at the moment. And these problems are not our fault. The problem is that the European countries daily provoke the Kiev regime to continue the war. Under these circumstances, we do not currently see any alternatives to the current pause. And here, of course, we are grateful to the United States for repeatedly declaring at various levels its readiness to continue to promote a peaceful settlement," he said.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova also said during a press briefing that European support for a potential delivery of US Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine demonstrated a 'lack of political will for peace in the West'.
Vladimir Putin has said that the potential delivery of such missiles would negatively affect relations between Moscow and Washington. Donald Trump initially said that he had 'sort of' made a decision about Tomahawks but wanted to know what Ukraine planned to do with the missiles - but later said that it could be a 'new step of aggression' and said he would need to talk to Russia first. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to meet with the US president at the White House on Friday.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitri Peskov said Moscow was 'grateful' to the US for its peaceful efforts, adding that European countries 'daily provoke the Kiev regime to continue' the Ukrainian conflict, during a press briefing in Moscow on Wednesday.
"President Putin has repeatedly said that he is open to transferring the entire process to a political and diplomatic track. There are problems with this at the moment. And these problems are not our fault. The problem is that the European countries daily provoke the Kiev regime to continue the war. Under these circumstances, we do not currently see any alternatives to the current pause. And here, of course, we are grateful to the United States for repeatedly declaring at various levels its readiness to continue to promote a peaceful settlement," he said.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova also said during a press briefing that European support for a potential delivery of US Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine demonstrated a 'lack of political will for peace in the West'.
Vladimir Putin has said that the potential delivery of such missiles would negatively affect relations between Moscow and Washington. Donald Trump initially said that he had 'sort of' made a decision about Tomahawks but wanted to know what Ukraine planned to do with the missiles - but later said that it could be a 'new step of aggression' and said he would need to talk to Russia first. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to meet with the US president at the White House on Friday.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.