Press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov drew attention to the reaction of Ukrainian and Western politicians to the “Christmas truce”, calling it incomprehensible, inexplicable and cynical.
Press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov on January 10 answered the question of journalists whether to expect the establishment of a ceasefire from the Russian side in the future. According to the Kremlin spokesman, the introduction of such a regime will depend entirely on the decisions of President Vladimir Putin. By the way in shape Interfax agency.
Peskov noted that if the regime introduced on January 6-7 helped Orthodox Christians living in war zones to calmly pray on the day of the Nativity of Christ, then the goal was achieved.
“Let’s remember the goals again, these are humanitarian goals – so that those Christians who celebrate Christmas on the 7th can pray in churches. If this (ceasefire) helped at least someone to do it, it means that he has already achieved his goal ” Peskov said.
He also commented on the reaction of the Ukrainian side and Western politicians regarding the “Christmas truce”, calling it incomprehensible, inexplicable and cynical.
“We have encountered a completely incomprehensible, inexplicable and rather cynical reaction from, first of all, Kiev, as well as many Western leaders,” the spokesman said.
Recall that Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the head of the Russian Defense Ministry Sergei Shoigu establish a ceasefire from 12:00 on 6 January to 00:00 on 7 January. The Kremlin press service noted that this decision was taken taking into account the request for a “Christmas truce” by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill (Gundyaev).
In this regard, the adviser to the head of the president’s office, Mikhail Podolyak, said on January 5 that Moscow could count on a “temporary truce” only if Russian troops leave the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
Also NSDC secretary Oleksiy Danilov commented on Putin’s decisioncalling it lies and hypocrisy. He said that the Ukrainian side would not conduct any negotiations on a truce and called on the occupiers to “pick up their rubbish and go to Russia”.
