Putin wants Russia to dominate its neighbors again and seeks to recreate an empire to achieve this.
The European Union will continue to support Ukraine in its right to self-defense, as it is in the interests of EU security and international security. This was said on Wednesday, July 10, by EU High Representative Josep Borrell in Washington at a hearing on EU defense on the sidelines of the NATO summit.
He noted that now “the front line between democracy and authoritarian regimes is Ukraine,” and it is “in Ukraine that the future of European security will be decided.”
“Some of you may look at the European elections a few weeks ago, at the trips of one of our prime ministers, and ask yourself: “Does Europe really have a responsibility to protect Ukraine in the long term ?” Not only because it is the right thing to do, but also because “that it is in our own interests Because by defending Ukraine, we are defending European security This is the only way to achieve peace,” Borrell emphasized and noted that “. peace is more than the absence of war.”
Borrell emphasized that Europe is to blame for the fact that the Kremlin’s authoritarian regime has become militaristic over the past 25 years, because “the West simply looked at Putin’s massacre in Chechnya in 1999, at the interference in Syrian politics , then responded weakly to the invasion of Georgia in 2008, and was completely hesitant about the annexation of Crimea in 2014.”
“We don’t want to see what is obvious – that Putin wants Russia to dominate its neighbors again. Russia still acts like an empire. And Putin wants to rebuild the empire – tsarist or Soviet. When Only February 2022, when they started bombing Kyiv, we woke up,” said Borrell.
The head of European diplomacy added, “if the EU allows Putin’s Russia to turn Ukraine into a second Belarus and install a puppet government in Kyiv, then Europe will pay a higher price.”
Earlier, Vladimir Zelensky said that Ukrainians will never forgive Putin. According to him, the Russian dictator will not rest in peace in this world or the next. Neither his children nor his grandchildren, the President of Ukraine was assured.
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