MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Friday that the war in Ukraine was an existential question for Russia, after U.S. President Donald Trump likened it to a playground fight.

“Sometimes you see two young children fighting like crazy, they hate each other and they’re fighting in a park,” Trump said on Thursday. “Sometimes you’re better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart,” he added.

Asked about the comment, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “Here, of course, the U.S. president may have his own point of view on what is happening, but for us this is an existential question – this is a question of our national interests, this is a question of our security and the future of ourselves and our children, the future of our country.”

Peskov said Moscow was gratefu

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