The Kremlin on Thursday condemned the lack of “willingness to listen to Russia” after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi’s visit to the United States, while Vladimir Putin said he wanted the war to end “as soon as possible,” AFP reported.

“To date, we regret to state that neither President Biden nor President Zelensky has said anything that could be perceived as a potential willingness to listen to Russia’s concerns,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmytro Peskov said Thursday.

He said during Zelensky’s visit there were no “real calls for peace” or “warnings” from the U.S. against “continuous shelling of residential buildings in populated areas of Donbas,” a region in eastern Ukraine partially controlled by pro-Russian separatists. .- Russians.

“This shows that the US continues its line of de facto and indirect war with Russia, to the last Ukrainian,” the spokesman added.

On Wednesday, on the day of Volodymyr Zelenskyi’s visit to the United States, the Kremlin warned that further supplies of American weapons to Ukraine would only worsen the conflict.

Zelensky said that Western aid to his country is an “investment in global security and democracy” and not “charity.”

On the ground, Russia has suffered serious setbacks in recent months.

In response, beginning in October, he chose the tactic of massive bombing of Ukrainian infrastructure, leaving millions without electricity, water, or heating in the middle of winter.

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