MOSCOW. March 25 (Interfax) - The Russian president's press secretary Dmitry Peskov has refused to comment on Ukrainian Batkivshchyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko's remarks, posted on the Internet, concerning ethnic Russians in Ukraine.
Peskov said he was unable to comment on these remarks because "the source of information in this case is not verified."
"Tymoshenko admitted to a certain extent that this is true, but I cannot say which [of Tymoshenko's words are] true and [which are] false," Peskov said.
The recording of a two-minute telephone conversation was posted online earlier in which a female voice resembling Tymoshenko's discusses the situation in Ukraine with Shufrych and allegedly suggests using nuclear weapons against ethnic Russians in Ukraine.
For her part, Tymoshenko said on her Twitter page that she admitted speaking by telephone with Party of Regions MP Nestor Shufrych, but said that her words in a certain part of this taped conversation had been edited to discredit her.