Vladimir Putin’s speech: renunciation of nuclear disarmament and announcement of a long military campaign

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday froze his country’s compliance with the latest nuclear disarmament treaty, which is still in effect between Russia and USANew START or START-3, and announced that he was preparing for a long military campaign in Ukraine.

“They want to inflict a strategic defeat on us and penetrate our nuclear facilities. Therefore, I am compelled to announce today that Russia is suspending its participation in the Strategic Offensive Arms Treaty,” he said. Putin in his Statement of the Nation address both Houses of Parliament.

During the hour and 45 minutes of his speech, he never mentioned a possible dialogue, he defended the “right to Russia be strong” and accused the West of sole responsibility for geopolitical tensions in the world, including Ukraine.

Got the glove right away NATOwhose Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg condemned that with Russia’s decision, “the entire arms control architecture” was dismantled.

LAST DISARMAMENT TREATY

Putinwho insists on it Moscow possesses unparalleled hypersonic weapons in the world, he clarified that “Russia does not refuse, but only suspends” compliance with the agreement signed in 2010, extended in 2021 by the head of Russia and the president USA, Joe Bidenwhich expires in 2026.

Among other things, new beginning reduces the number of nuclear warheads by 30%, to 1550 per country.

He put forward that “yes USA conducts nuclear tests of a new type of strategic weapon, Russia will also conduct tests” of this class.

“Of course, we will not be the first to do this (…). No one should have the dangerous illusion that strategic global parity can be destroyed,” he commented.

Vladimir Putin called a statement in which NATO demanded that Russia comply with this treaty and advocated the inclusion of the Atlantic Alliance in the New START, since, as he recalled, France and UK they also have strategic arsenals.

USA suspended arms control dialogue after launching a “special military operation” almost a year ago, and the last attempt to resume it in November last year was postponed indefinitely Moscow.

Except, Russia reported in August Washington its decision to ban U.S. inspections of the site of its nuclear arsenal, citing difficulties in doing the same in USA due to Western sanctions.

In this regard, Russian deputies and senators rejected the decision Putin do not constitute a “threat to global security” but rather a warning to the West.

“Nuclear powers don’t lose wars,” Defense Minister Leonid Slutsky said. Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs.

DESTROY RUSSIA ONCE AND FOR ALL

The President of Russia accused West desire to “finish” Russia “once and for all”, which would jeopardize the “existence of the country”, a condition for the use of nuclear weapons, according to Russian military doctrine.

Condemning that NATO wants to turn a local conflict into a “global confrontation”, Putin warned that defeat Russia on the battlefield “impossible”.

“One thing should be clear to everyone: the greater the range of weapons supplied to Ukraine, the more we will be forced to move the threat away from our borders,” he said.

The Russian leader condemned that “West use for Ukraine like a training ground, like a ram against Russia” and claimed that even before the start of the Russian military campaign almost a year ago, Kyiv He had already negotiated with his sponsors for arms supplies.

Stoltenberg replied that “no one is attacking Russia”, whom he called the “aggressor” and assured that there were “signs” that Putin prepares for peace, but “for a new war.”

CAMPAIGN WITHOUT END

Putin did not hint at the course of the military campaign in which Army Russian He has not taken a single major Ukrainian city since July 2022, although he hinted that the case would drag on for a long time.

“And step by step, carefully and consistently, we will fulfill the tasks that we face,” he stressed three days after the first anniversary of the campaign in Ukraine which he ordered to begin on February 24, 2022.

He insisted that this West who started the war Russia he did “everything possible, really everything possible, to solve this problem peacefully” and stated that he used force “to stop it”.

In this regard, he announced that the Russians fighting in Ukraine they will have vacations of “at least” two weeks every six months and it is proposed to create a state fund to help veterans and families of those killed in Ukrainethe number of which the Kremlin refuses to disclose.

EFE