MOSCOW. Sept 1 (Interfax) - The deployment of arms-manufacturing facilities in Ukraine by Western countries will not help settle the conflict and cannot hinder the successful completion of the special military operation, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said.
"Deploying arms-manufacturing sites in Ukraine certainly won't be able to alleviate the tensions and settle the Ukraine conflict," Peskov told journalists.
"This can't fundamentally change the situation, and it can't influence the special military operation's predetermined successful completion," he said.
"But we definitely view this rather negatively, and of course, any sites manufacturing weapons, especially if those weapons fire at us, would draw our military's special attention," Peskov said when commenting on reports that the British arms manufacturer BAE Systems planned to open an office in Ukraine and subsequently begin manufacturing weapons in the country.