Three dead in renewed attack on Kiev

After drone attacks on Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused Germany and other Western countries of anti-Russian reactions. “One can feed Russophobia and they (the European states) feed Russophobia,” Peskov said on Russian state television on Wednesday evening. He was reacting to statements by German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit. However, he did not explicitly comment on the drone incidents in Moscow. Instead, earlier in the day, when asked how he viewed attacks on the Russian heartland, he said: “Basically, international law provides that a country defends itself.”

The defense against the attack by Russian forces on Ukraine is legitimate. “However, the Federal Chancellor has made it clear time and again: As far as the use of German weapons is concerned, they are there to defend Ukrainian territory.” When asked whether that meant, conversely, Hebestreit blamed the attacks by Ukrainians with Ukrainian weapons on the Considering the Russian heartland to be legitimate, he said: “I did not lead the actual attack, but international law. And international law considers such attacks legitimate.”

Chancellor Olaf Scholz himself assured last Friday that German weapons supplied to Ukraine would not be used on Russian soil. “Russia attacked Ukraine, and therefore Ukraine can also defend itself,” said the SPD politician during a visit to Estonia. “And at the same time it is clear that the weapons that we have supplied will only be used on Ukrainian territory.” He referred to a similar statement by US President Joe Biden regarding US weapons in the New York Times. “And that also applies unchanged,” says Scholz.