“We believe that the United States is deliberately adding fuel to the fire. These (weapons) deliveries do not encourage the Ukrainian leadership to relaunch peace negotiations,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov said.
The peace negotiations between kyiv and Moscow have been stalled since the end of March, when Russia announced a withdrawal of its troops from the outskirts of kyiv and announced that it was concentrating on the donbasin eastern Ukraine.
The United States announced on Tuesday the shipment to Ukraine of the HIMARS systems (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System), multiple rocket launchers that have a range of about 80 kilometers.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov said on Wednesday that this new battery of military aid “increases the risk” of a military confrontation between Russia and the United States.
Russia also reported that it is taking measures to “minimize” the impact of the embargo on its oil agreed by the European Union as a result of the war in Ukraine,.
“These sanctions will have a negative impact for Europe, for us and for the world energy market as a whole. But there is a reorientation [de la economía rusa] that will allow us to minimize the negative consequences,” Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, told a news conference.
European Union leaders agreed on Monday to a partial embargo on Russian oil imports before the end of this year.
Brussels thus hopes to deprive Russia of part of its energy revenues that allow it to finance the war in Ukraine.
This measure is part of the sixth package of European sanctions, which also includes the exclusion of three Russian banks from the SWIFT system.
Moscow tends to play down the impact of Western sanctions on its economy.
Despite the partial oil embargo, Russia still has gas exports to Europe, much more important than crude oil.
Source: Ambito
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