MOSCOW, September 19. /TASS/. The regime currently in power in Kiev is focused solely on war, and its allies should question where their support is leading, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov told TASS, commenting on the recent visits of US envoys Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow and Kiev.

"The regime currently in Kiev is working only for war. If it suits anyone right now, then a perfectly logical question must be asked — and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is asking it: 'Do you guys actually want to go to war with us? And have you asked yourselves how that will end? Or do you think Russia will fight Europe using drones? Is anyone counting on that?'" he said.

Azarov added that such questions need to be raised in contacts with the US, "until the Americans become convinced that it is actually in their own interest to have a regime that works for peace rather than war."

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