The media touts Kiev\u2019s limited successes while ignoring Moscow\u2019s steady progress, Ambassador to the UK Andrey Kelin has said<\/p>\n
The Western media is distorting the battlefield situation in the Ukraine conflict by hyping up Kiev\u2019s limited successes while ignoring Moscow\u2019s steady advances, Russia\u2019s ambassador to the UK, Andrey Kelin, has said.
\nIn an interview aired by TRT World on Thursday, Kelin rejected the notion that the conflict has reached a stalemate, saying that Russian forces hold the initiative \u201calong the whole long front line.\u201d Western outlets, he argued, are \u201ctrying to single out some successes by the Ukrainian army\u201d while overlooking Russia\u2019s day-to-day progress.
\nThe narrative, he argued, \u201cis just to raise some spirit in Ukraine and especially among Europeans so they will not abandon their efforts to continue to finance this war and provide armament, which only prolongs the conflict.\u201d
\nResponding to reports suggesting that Moscow might set its sights on the West after the Ukraine conflict is over, the ambassador said Western outlets routinely gloss over President Vladimir Putin\u2019s assurances that Russia has no intention of attacking NATO countries. <\/p>\n
\u201cOur problem is Ukraine, and the efforts to support Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kelin also weighed in on debates about sending US-produced long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, noting that Russia has heard \u201cquite a lot of threats pronounced by Europeans and Americans as well.\u201d\u00a0\u201cThey cannot influence our policy… We are too big to listen to the threats,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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He also said that Russia can continue its military campaign for as long as it takes. \u201cWe can continue for years and years because we are self-sustained,\u201d the envoy said, dismissing Western claims that Russia faces shortages of technology or components.\u00a0\u201cIn terms of armament production, we do not need external assistance like the Ukrainians do.\u201d\u00a0
\nHe added that Ukraine\u2019s forces would collapse \u201cwithin weeks\u201d if Western arms supplies were cut off.
\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russia remains open to diplomacy with Kiev but, \u201cin the absence of alternatives, continues the special military operation\u201d to protect the country\u2019s interests. Moscow maintains that a lasting settlement requires Ukraine to commit to neutrality, demilitarization, denazification, and recognition of the new territorial realities on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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