MOSCOW. Jan 29 (Interfax) - Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said he is unaware of whether the Kremlin plans to invite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to join in celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany in Moscow in May 2020.
Peskov was asked on Wednesday whether Zelensky will be invited to Moscow on May 9, after recently blaming the Soviet Union for playing a role in starting WWII. "I need to have this clarified; I'm not prepared to answer that question so far," Peskov told journalists.
"I can only repeat that such remarks evoke nothing but regret and incomprehension, and the rest needs to be clarified," he said.
Zelensky said while visiting Poland a few days ago, that the start of WWII was prompted by collusion between totalitarian regimes, which subsequently started "the deadly flywheel of the Holocaust."
Peskov harshly criticized this statement on Tuesday.
"We categorically disagree with this statement. In making this statement, the Ukrainian president has sided with what we see as the extremely erroneous point of view of Polish leadership, a point of view that insults tens of millions of Russians and citizens of other CIS countries, whose parents, grandparents, and other relatives gave their lives in order to liberate Europe, including Poland, from Nazism," Peskov said.