Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov (Photo: Reuters).
RT reported that Mr. Peskov said on January 23 that Mr. Zelensky wanted to have the same mass support from the Ukrainian people as Mr. Putin received from the Russian people. However, the Kremlin spokesman said that Mr. Zelensky seemed unlikely to achieve this.
Mr Peskov criticised the decree signed by Mr Zelensky regarding Russian territory as “an attempt to distract people from the problems piling up in Ukraine”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on January 22 signed a decree on "territories of the Russian Federation historically inhabited by Ukrainians".
The decree instructs the Ukrainian government to draw up a plan in coordination with international experts to protect the national identity of Ukrainians living in the Russian regions of Krasnodar, Rostov, Voronezh, Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk.
“Mr Zelensky is trying to regain the overwhelming support of the Ukrainian public – for example, he really wants to be like President Putin, so that the whole country will support him – but it doesn’t work that way,” Mr Peskov said.
“More and more people in Ukraine are starting to think that maybe the Kiev government is doing something wrong,” he said.
“Mr. Zelensky is also trying to return to the time almost two years ago, when the West sent him almost unlimited amounts of money and ammunition, but that will not happen either,” Mr. Peskov said.
According to the Kremlin spokesman, Mr. Zelensky, instead of dealing with the problems Ukraine is facing, continues the "senseless bloodshed" on the battlefield and takes "absurd steps such as making statements related to Russian territory".
Mr Zelensky described the signing of the decree relating to six Russian regions as a way to promote “the truth about the Ukrainian people and their history”.
The decree calls on Russia to provide people living in the six regions with access to Ukrainian-language mass media and a number of special "civil, social, cultural and religious rights."
In addition, the decree also says that "the true history of the Ukrainian people on the lands where they historically lived within the borders of the Russian Federation" should also be included in textbooks.
Responding to this decree, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said that the decree was only intended to distract public opinion from Ukraine's setbacks on the battlefield.
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