MOSCOW, February 13. /TASS/. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on remarks by Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk that former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko in the past allegedly offered Russian leader Vladimir Putin to "take Donbass."
"No, I will leave this without any comment," the Kremlin official said on Monday about Medvedchuk’s claims in an interview with Belarus’ STV channel.
That said, he noted: "Undoubtedly, the way the Kiev regime has been acting with regards to the Donbass republics for eight years probably testifies that not a single regime would have acted like this with regards to territories it needed, not a single regime would have been involved in what can pretty much be considered genocide, not a single regime would have shelled its own soil and its population with heavy artillery, killing women, children and the elderly."
"This has been going on for eight long years and, unfortunately, this is something that was ignored by [foreign] media outlets, ignored by the leaders of the countries of the so-called collective West. In this sense, indeed, there was such an attitude by the [Kiev] regime with regards to the Donbass regions, as if they didn’t need them," Peskov concluded.