Published 16:54 IST, May 17th 2022
Kremlin terms US as hostile state, slams Washington-led 'hybrid war' against Moscow
Russia, on Tuesday, said that the Western countries, including the US, which is conducting a hybrid war against Russia, have become hostile states to Moscow.
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Amid relentless war, Russia has said that Western countries, including US, which is conducting a hybrid war against Russia, have become hostile states to Moscow, TASS reported. According to Russian news agency, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said this while he was at educational marathon conference on Tuesday. As per Peskov, America has started a "hybrid war" against Russia as Moscow become a tough competitor of United States. He maintained that Russia tried to contact America to dress its grievances related to security. However, US did not show any interest in resolving issues, Peskov ded.
"y didn't listen to us very much, because re is very strong competition in world. And in general, collective west is arranged in form of a pyramid, US being at top, no matter what anyone says. And decision-making centre is re," Russian news agency Sputnik quoted Peskov.
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Furr, he slammed US and British visors who were assisting Ukraine with intelligence data. Peskov termed ongoing situation as both a diplomatic and political war. " hybrid war is what is happening right now, what we have encountered. It is not confined to US and British visers, who are telling armed Ukrainian nationalists what to do and who are providing m with intelligence data and so on," TASS quoted Peskov as saying.
Peskov says Russia will take back its frozen assets
"It’s a diplomatic war and a political war. re are attempts to isolate us in world. It’s an economic war. We indeed keep referring to m mildly as unfriendly states, but I should say that y are hostile states because what y are doing is war," TASS quoted Peskov as saying. While speaking at event, Peskov highlighted how West has frozen Russian funds. He termed US action against Russian frozen assets as "ft" and reiterated Russia will fight to get it back.
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"Our dollar-and euro-denominated assets on accounts re in Western countries have been frozen. In fact, y have been stolen, y are trying to be stolen. But we are going to fight for m, of course," he said.
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16:54 IST, May 17th 2022