The Latest Breaking News from Dmitry Peskov

"Blanket sanctions against the Russian economy are having an effect"

Russia considers its claims that Ukraine conducted military biological programmes as an important issue for the whole world, which needs to know the truth, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.

The Kremlin accused the United States on Wednesday of declaring an economic war on Russia that was sowing mayhem through energy markets, and put Washington on notice it was considering its response to a ban on Russian oil and energy.

Dmitry Peskov claimed that under Russia’s demands Ukraine could be an ‘independent state’ with ‘conditions of neutrality’

Russia is demanding that Ukraine cease military action, change its constitution to enshrine neutrality, acknowledge Crimea as Russian territory and recognise the separatist republics of Donetsk and Lugansk as independent territories, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov acknowledges ‘heated debates among cultural figures’, tells Russians now not time for divisions.

The Kremlin on Thursday praised Russian troops fighting in Ukraine as heroes who would go down in history and described the deaths of soldiers there as a tragedy.

Ukraine-Russia news from March 3: Kyiv and Moscow agree on plan for safe corridors to evacuate civilians.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov is among 26 prominent people sanctioned by the European Union for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, according to the decision published on Monday on the EU's official journal.

‘I will not name the authors of these statements, although it was the British foreign secretary’

The Kremlin on Monday said Russia's economic reality had changed but saw no reason to doubt the effectiveness and reliability of the central bank, which hiked interest rates to 20% as it sought to shield the economy from unprecedented Western sanctions. The bank has also introduced some capital controls as…