Russian President Vladimir Putin will not make a response appeal.
On Wednesday, February 16, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on yesterday's address by US President Joe Biden to the Russian people, in which he assured the Russians that they are not considered enemies in the United States.
The Kremlin speaker's comment was quoted by the Russian news agency TASS.
Peskov noted that the assurances of the President of the United States would be more impressive if they were not accompanied by threats.
“Probably, one can welcome the fact that the President of the United States of America, one of the largest countries in the world, one of the most powerful states, really thinks about the Russian people. This should probably impress. If we had heard the appeal without threats, then the Russian people would certainly have been more impressed,” he said.
According to Putin's spokesman, the Kremlin is already tired of the constant threats of sanctions and US reactions against Russia in the event of an invasion of Ukraine.
“Of course, we would prefer not to listen to various threats about what will happen to us if we do something there that we are not going to do. These threats, repeated like a mantra on a daily basis, to be honest, are already tired,” said Peskov.
Peskov added that President Vladimir Putin would not make a return appeal.
Recall that earlier Putin's representative gave a cynical advice to the US President to make an appeal also to the Ukrainian people, urging the Ukrainians “not to shoot at each other.”
