One person was killed while two others sustained injuries after Ukrainian troops shelled a shelter for evacuated citizens in southwestern Russia's Belgorod region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said, reported TASS on Tuesday.
National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby said, "I would just tell you Mr. (Dmitry) Peskov's lying. I mean, it's obviously a ludicrous claim. The United States had nothing to do with this. We don't even know what happened here."
"The Kremlin believes that this is yet another escalation and that NATO's expansion is posing a threat to our security and the interests of the Russian Federation. <...> We will take countermeasures to ensure our own security both tactically and strategically," Peskov warned as he said Russi
"We believe that everyone should be interested in an objective investigation involving all interested parties, all those who can shed light on the customers and perpetrators of this terrorist act," said Peskov in a press briefing in Moscow when asked what steps Moscow plans to take further.
"This year we decided to refrain from taking part in this event. It is because they have become a foreign agent," said Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.
The Chinese leader's state visit showed Moscow and Beijing united against the West, but failure to agree on the Siberia Power 2 pipeline suggested that economic ties have limits.
Both leaders did not discuss a Kyiv-proposed peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. He said that Kyiv's proposal was a matter of Sino-Ukraine relations.
Russian President Vladimir Putin may go to the G20 summit in India, but no decision has yet been made, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday. "It cannot be ruled out," the Kremlin spokesman said when asked if Putin's participation in the summit in India was being consid