The Kremlin reiterated on Friday that the Western countries supplying additional tanks to Ukraine would not change the course of the conflict, saying the West would regret Ukraine's "circular" victory on the battlefield.
A meeting of Sekut leaders discussing aid to Ukraine at US Ramstein Air Base, Germany, urged Berlin on Friday to give the green light to German-made Leopard 2 tank deliveries to Ukraine, to push Moscow troops back, despite no decision being made.
"We have repeatedly said such supplies will not fundamentally change anything, but will add to the problems for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Asked if the increasingly sophisticated supply of weapons to Ukraine meant the conflict was increasing, he said:
"We see increased indirect engagement and sometimes directly from NATO countries in this conflict," he said.
"We see dedication to dramatic imagination that Ukraine can succeed on the battlefield. This is a dramatic imagination of the Western community that will be more than one regrettable," he quipped.
Peskov said the way to prevent escalation was paying attention to the strategic concerns Russia expressed at the end of 2021, just before starting the war.
Since then, Moscow has declared four Ukrainian provinces as part of Russia. He said Moscow should act to protect Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine from persecution, and to prevent an aggressive West from using Ukraine to threaten Russia.
Meanwhile, Kyiv and Western countries say this is baseless pretext for the seizure of imperial-style soil in Ukraine, which was once part of the Soviet Union until it broke out in 1991.
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