“The Kyiv regime wants to manipulate this situation by using the people who are there in all possible cases in their own interests,” RIA Novosti quotes her.
According to Zakharova, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky believes that one must have a certain trump card up his sleeve, terrible, bloody, but in his understanding, this is such a card that “you can play endlessly.”
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin, during negotiations with UN Secretary General António Guterres, compared the Ukrainian military holding civilians at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol with terrorists.