Russia is “in a state of war” against Ukraine, Kremlin admits for the first time. The change in semantics has not gone unnoticed.
Dmitry Peskov clarified that Russia could not allow a state capable of doing anything to take control of Crimea, considered an integral part of Russia by Moscow, to exist on its borders. He insisted on presenting the assault on Kiev, launched two years ago, as a “special operation” and rejected the use of the word “war”