Dmitry Medvedev additionally stated Russia was ready to carry talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Moscow:

A high ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin stated on Friday that Moscow wouldn’t cease its army marketing campaign in Ukraine even when Kyiv formally renounced its aspirations to hitch NATO.

Former President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, additionally stated in a French tv interview that Russia was ready to carry talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy topic to sure situations.

Even earlier than the February invasion, Moscow made clear Ukrainian membership of NATO was unacceptable to it.

“Renouncing its participation in the North Atlantic alliance is now vital, but it is already insufficient in order to establish peace,” Medvedev informed LCI tv in quotes reported by Russian information companies.

Russia, he stated, would proceed the marketing campaign till its objectives had been achieved. Putin says he needs to “denazify” Ukraine. Kyiv and the West say this can be a baseless pretext for a warfare of conquest.

Russia and Ukraine held a number of rounds of talks after the invasion started, however they made no progress and there are few prospects for a resumption.

“This (talks) will depend on how events unfold. We were ready before to meet (Zelenskiy),” Medvedev stated.

In his feedback, he additionally stated U.S. weapons already equipped to Ukraine — like HIMARS multiple-rocket launchers – didn’t but pose a considerable risk.

But that might change, he stated, if U.S. despatched weapons may hit targets at longer distances.

“It means that when this sort of missile flies 70 km, that is one thing,” he stated. “But when it’s 300-400 km, that is another, now that would be a threat directly to the territory of the Russian Federation.”

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