Kremlin accuses Biden administration of disrupting Trump’s attempts to end Ukraine war

ISTANBUL

The Kremlin has accused the administration of outgoing US President Joe Biden of trying to disrupt President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war, which marked its 1,000th day last week.

“During the election campaign, Trump said that he intended to somehow ensure peace and bring everyone to a peaceful course. And now they (the Biden administration) are trying to escalate the situation so much that these peaceful conditions are already doomed to failure,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin late Sunday.

Accusing the Biden administration of being a “war party,” Peskov argued that they have repeatedly demonstrated that they want and will do “everything” to ensure that the conflict in Ukraine does not end.

Peskov further said he believes the Democrats want to take revenge for their loss in the US presidential election earlier this month, further arguing that this is why they are trying to "drive the Trump administration into a dead end."

The spokesman also said he thinks any confrontation does not exclude the possibility of dialogue, and that, in the case of the US, it was “hard to imagine” that Washington would reduce dialogue with Moscow to zero.

He went on to say Moscow is not looking at Trump’s second term in office with “rose-colored glasses,” and that they will see whether the incoming US president will change Washington’s policy following his inauguration in January.