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Kremlin refers to ‘war’ in Ukraine for first time
More than two years after launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a top Kremlin official has said that it is now a “war”, which he blamed on the West.
The Kremlin has until now insisted that the attack on Ukraine ordered on February 24, 2022, was described only as a “special military operation” to ensure the “demilitarisation and denazification” of Russia’s neighbour. This term implied that the operation had a limited scope, while the use of the broader term “war” was effectively banned.
“It began as a special military operation, but as soon as the clique emerged, when the collective West became involved on the side of Ukraine, it became a war for us,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained in an interview published on Friday in Argumenty i Fakty magazine.
In response to questions from the media, the Kremlin spokesman clarified that Russia was effectively at war, but that the combat operations would retain their current legal status. “De jure, it is a special military operation,” he said.