Peskov said Putins words about the Pechenegs and the Polovtsians

MOSCOW, 12 APR — RIA Novosti. Press-Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov has found it difficult to explain why in one of his last cases on the subject of coronavirus Vladimir Putin recalled the struggle against the Polovtsy and Pechenegs.

“I can Tell you that the President is very well aware of our Russian history. He was constantly reading historical materials and memoirs, and other books, he knows very well the history, it is very hard to argue with something historical topics,” he said in the program “Moscow, the Kremlin, Putin” on TV channel “Russia 1”.

a Kremlin spokesman recalled that the Pechenegs “was a big headache” for the Kievan Rus.

“And were the Pechenegs, and Cumans passed, and the virus will take place, God willing, will be vaccinated,” said he.

on Wednesday, the time of the video gate with the governors Putin again — for the third time since the beginning of the pandemic COVID-19 — turned to the Russians and assured that the country lost in time raids by the Pechenegs and Polovtsy, will survive and a new “coronavirus infection”.

Peskov later said that the head of state added that analogy in his speech itself.

According to the latest world health organization in the world, the coronavirus has infected more than half a million people, nearly a hundred thousand of them died.