MOSCOW, March 20. /TASS/. The Kiev regime is seeking, through terrorist acts, to undermine everything achieved in the negotiations on the Ukrainian settlement, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has stated.
Zakharova, in a commentary on Ukrainian attacks on the infrastructure of the TurkStream and Blue Stream gas pipelines on March 17-19, recalled the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the board of the Russian Federal Security Service on February 24: "The enemy carries out these terrorist attacks in conditions where it is unable to achieve its main goal, to inflict a strategic defeat on our country on the battlefield."
At the same time, the foreign ministry spokeswoman emphasized that thanks to the coordinated effective actions of the Russian Defense Ministry forces and mobile operational groups, "all attacks were repelled, and damage to the listed facilities was prevented."
"The intention is obvious: to destroy the settlement process through diplomatic means, to ‘break everything that has already been achieved on the negotiation track,’" the diplomat noted in a commentary.
According to the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman, it is no coincidence that the Ukrainian attack coincided with meetings between Vladimir Zelensky and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London on March 17.
