Commenting on the ongoing peace summit in Saudi Arabia, Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said on Sunday that it is difficult to argue against the desire to reach peace in eastern Europe.
However, Medvedev noted that, for such talks to have a chance of success, they have to include both sides of the conflict, which is not the case, account for "historical context," which is that "the country of Ukraine never existed until 1991" and that "it is a fragment of the Russian Empire," and account for "current realities" that show that part of Ukraine's territories returned to Russia. Negotiations "are not yet needed" and "the enemy must crawl on its knees, begging for mercy," the former president and prime minister of Russia underlined.
The country's defense ministry revealed separately that it hit Ukrainian air bases in the Khmelnitsky region and in the Rovno region overnight.