​Kremlin spokesman Dmytro Peskov said on Friday that all questions from Russian journalists about the installation of air defense systems in Moscow should be directed to the Ministry of Defense, although he had just commented on other military matters.

We will remind, on Thursday, photos appeared on social networks showing that anti-aircraft complexes “Pantsir” were installed on the roof of the tallest buildings of the Russian capital, and such a system was also installed on the roof of the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense of Russia.

Asked about this on Friday during the daily press conference, Dmytro Peskov told reporters that:

“Here I want to completely redirect you to our Ministry of Defense. They are responsible for ensuring the security of the country in general and the capital in particular,” TASS reports.

“About all the measures that are being taken, it is better to ask there, at the Ministry of Defense,” Putin’s spokesman advised when asked if it was taken because the authorities expect attacks on the city, including from drones.

The Kremlin is playing ping-pong with uncomfortable questions

By the way, this is not the first time that Peskov refuses to comment on acute military issues, redirecting uncomfortable questions to the Ministry of Defense of Russia, which, however, organizes its daily briefing on the development of the “special forces operation” without the press.

But with regard to other topics that also relate to the war that Vladimir Putin started on February 24, Dmytro Peskov has no problem answering them to Russian journalists.

He did this during today’s press conference, speaking before this question about the “upward spiral” of the war in Ukraine and the “increasing participation” of NATO in it.

“So far we can see it [războiul] it really develops in an upward spiral. We see an increasing indirect and sometimes direct participation of NATO countries in this conflict. We are hearing statements that indicate the absolute dominance of political will and the continued growth of that participation,” he said after reporters asked him if he could be said to have reached a new point of escalation.

Dmytro Peskov talks about the “delusion” of the West

Peskov added that Western countries are “dramatically deceiving themselves” about “Ukraine’s ability to achieve some kind of success on the battlefield” and that in the end they will regret this delusion “many times”.

His comments came a day after the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, spoke for the first time about the possibility of defeat in Ukraine.

“The defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional war can trigger a nuclear war,” he wrote on his Telegram channel on Thursday, adding that “nuclear powers have never lost major conflicts on which their fate depends.”

The news with Peskov’s response to the installation of “Pantsir” defense systems in Moscow became the most read material of the most famous Russian state news agency TASS in less than an hour.

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