President of Russia, Vladimir Putinwhich is located in Ashgabat, the capital Turkmenistan for his participation in the Caspian Sea Summit, indicated that “nothing has changed” regarding his goals in Ukraine since he decreed a “special military operation” on 24 February.
The President of Russia once again stressed that the “ultimate goal” Moscow is the liberation of the district Donbass. He also emphasized that his military operations were not directed against civilian objects and that there was no “terror attack” in the Kremenchug shopping center, referring to the words of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
According to the Interfax news agency, the preparation NATO to confront Moscow not new. “The fact that they have been preparing some kind of action against us since 2014 is not new,” he said, adding that this explains the security measures. Moscow to protect their own interests.
In this sense, he emphasized what they did Ukraine anti-Russian and “springboard” for trying to shake things up Russia. “They began to fight against Russian culture, the Russian language, they began to persecute people who feel they are part of the Russian world,” he explained.
On the other hand, the president referred to a video shared by the G7 leaders in which they joke about taking off their jackets and stripping. “I don’t know how they wanted to undress, to the waist or below the waist. I think it would be a disgusting sight anyway,” he said.
In the same vein, he commented on the words of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who said in front of the microphones of the German ZDF network that if he were a woman, Putin would not have invaded Ukraine.
“I just want to recall the facts of recent history in this regard, when Margaret Thatcher decided to start hostilities against Argentina over the Falklands. Here, the woman decided to start hostilities. Where are the Falklands and where is Great Britain? .
Accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO
The President of Russia stressed that the membership Finland and Sweden in NATO This is not the same as Ukraine’s entry into the Atlantic Alliance, according to the Russian TASS news agency.
“Relatively Sweden and Finland. We have no problems with Sweden and Finland, which, unfortunately, we have with Ukraine. We don’t have problems or territorial disputes, we don’t have anything to worry us about Finland’s or Sweden’s membership in NATO,” he said.
Despite this, he stressed that in the event of the deployment of military contingents and military infrastructure, Moscow will have to “mirror respond and create the same threats for them.” “I repeat if threats are created,” he elaborated, adding that there was probably “some tension.”
“The thesis that we are fighting against NATO expansion at the expense of Ukraineand now we get, having accepted Sweden and Finland, this has no serious grounds,” Putin said, adding that Western countries “always talked about their exclusivity and introduced into the consciousness of the world community the thesis and slogan that “whoever is not with us, against us.
“By the hands of the Ukrainians, the Ukrainian people, NATO and the main NATO countries simply want to reassert themselves, to reaffirm their role in the world. Not to confirm their leadership, but their hegemony in the strictest sense of the word: their imperial ambitions,” he concluded.
(According to Europe Press)
Source: RPP
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