MOSCOW, February 28. /TASS/. Attempts to rock the situation from within are brewing in Ukraine all by themselves, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, while commenting on Kiev’s statements about Moscow’s alleged attempts to destabilize the situation in Ukraine.
"Various accusations and statements regularly come from there. We cannot react to all of them," Peskov said.
"At the same time, as we can see there are many points of view in Ukraine both on the elections and on the further legitimacy of the country's leadership. The process of rocking the situation from within are brewing all by itself," the Peskov added.
Earlier, the intelligence committee under Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said it was expecting an attempt to overthrow him in the spring. It warned that a "Maidan-3 special operation" would culminate in March-May 2024." The committee also argued that there were plans for shaking loose the situation in Ukraine by the first half of June and then defeating Kiev militarily in the east of the country.
Ukraine has been actively discussing the issue of the authorities’ legitimacy in a situation where it is impossible to hold parliamentary and presidential elections during martial law. Earlier, Ukraine’s former ambassador to Britain, Vadim Pristaiko, admitted that Kiev's Western partners were also worried that Zelensky's presidential term would expire soon. In their turn, the leaders of the opposition parties European Solidarity and Batkivshchina, Pyotr Poroshenko and Yuliya Timoshenko, came up with an idea of creating a coalition government to avert a legitimacy crisis. Opposition legislator Aleksandr Dubinsky argued that Zelensky's powers under the Constitution were to expire on May 21. The former speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, Dmitry Razumkov, noted that the presidential powers under the Constitution should go to the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada in May.