The Kremlin’s chief spokesman said over the weekend that Russia-Ukraine peace talks should continue but asserted that Ukraine has been a “hostile country” against Moscow for years now. “Ukraine is a very difficult country for us. It is in its current state a country hostile towards us,” Dmitry Peskov, the chief spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, told the Belarus state media over the weekend, according to RIA Novosti. “It is a country that, de-facto, has completely banned any Russian-language Russian media outlets. It is a country that has turned Russian into a second-class language,” Peskov said, while adding that the government allegedly has backed and promoted Ukrainian nationalists. “We still expect and hope that, one way or another, manifestations of nationalist ideas will get banned in Ukraine, we hope that the Russian language will restore its position in Ukraine,” he continued. Moscow and Kyiv have held several rounds of …