VIENNA, October 8. /TASS/. Vladimir Zelensky keeps threatening to escalate violence against Russia, but can't execute on those threats, Moscow’s Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Dmitry Polyansky said.

According to him, Zelensky "still hopes to inflict at least some significant damage on Moscow" and the surrounding region in order to convince the West that Ukraine is capable of conducting operations affecting Russia.

"The Kiev regime head keeps threatening Russia with escalation that he cannot sustain and then, he complains about large-scale attacks by Russia," the diplomat said at a meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna.

Polyansky suggested that Zelensky recall the English proverb that "the one who lives in a glass house shouldn't throw stones at others." The Russian envoy added that Ukraine was receiving a far more powerful response, while the strikes were targeting first and foremost the facilities that keep "Kiev’s war machine" going.