ATP - NATO Secretary General
Jens Stoltenberg misunderstood Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statement
by assuming that Russian “volunteers” located in eastern Ukraine
meant “members of the military,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said
Friday.
“There was a war going on and
people went there to fight, to shoot, and to participate
in combat…that’s the military sphere,” Peskov told journalists
in response of what the Russian president had in mind when he was
speaking about military issues during his annual press conference
on December 17.
When journalists asked Peskov
to be more precise of what Putin was speaking about when
discussing the military in eastern Ukraine that he meant Russian
volunteers had been there and not regular military troops, Peskov said, “Yes.”
“That’s completely incorrect,” Peskov
said in regard to Stoltenberg’s interpretation of Putin’s
statement.
On Thursday, Putin said Moscow had
never said that there were no people resolving military issues in Ukraine,
but that does not mean that there are Russian troops permanently stationed
there.
We never said that there were no people
who task themselves with solving certain issues, including in the
military sphere, but that does not mean that there are regular Russian
troops there. Feel the difference," Putin explained at his annual
press conference.
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