Dmitry Peskov Quotes

We will win and achieve all our goals.

Although elections are a requirement of democracy and Putin himself has decided to hold them, theoretically it’s possible not to hold them, Because it’s already obvious that Putin will be elected.

Russia does not strike at civilian infrastructure.

We categorically deny any accusations.

Many people show themselves to be what we in Russia like to call traitors. They disappear from our lives on their own. Some resign from their jobs, some withdraw from their professional lives, and some leave the country and move to other places. That’s how the purification happens.

You should rely only on the data published by the Ministry of Defense of Russia.

No one would think from the very beginning about a couple of days. It's a serious operation with serious purposes. And I think if we try to remember those purposes, those main goals of the operation, it is to get rid of the military potential of Ukraine, and this is why our military is targeting only military objects on the territory of Ukraine. Not civil ones. Russia military are not hitting civilian aims, civil targets. Number two, it is to ensure that Ukraine changes from entire Russian centered to a neutral country. And in this sense, let's remember that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the neutral status fixed with us in the declaration of independence of the country. Three, to get rid of the nationalist battalions and regiments who are opposing Russian troops, who are now trying to cover themselves under the shield of civilians, thus paving a way for civil casualties.

The Russian troops don’t conduct any strikes against civilian infrastructure and residential areas.

The West is an oasis for criminals from Russia.

Russians don’t wage war. We’re trying to preserve infrastructure and human lives.

The creation of a demilitarised zone around the ZNPP [Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant] is not being considered.

Russian soldiers are not shooting at civilians. They’re not attacking them but helping them.

We will continue to consult with the people who live in those regions.

Also to ensure that Ukraine acknowledges the fact that Crimea is also an untakable part of Russia, and that People's Republic of Luhansk and Donetsk are independent states. Ukraine has lost them after the coup that happened in 2014.

Waging war is a completely different thing. It entails total destruction of infrastructure, complete destruction of cities. We’re not doing that.