Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with the Belarusian TV channel ONT that Moscow has not lost its kinship with the Ukrainian people
“You yourself know, for example, what kind of “friendship” we have with Ukraine now. But this does not mean that we have lost our kinship with the Ukrainian people. Let the number of people duped by propaganda grow there, who are already starting to hate Russia”, – Peskov said.
He stressed that both Russians and Ukrainians are Slavic peoples. Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin published an article “On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians” on his official website.