“Spontaneously” Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, so “we also started the events of 2022 without any special preparation,” Vladimir Putin said.
Russia should have invaded Ukraine earlier, but it should have been better prepared for it. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin said this in a live call accompanying his “big” annual press conference on Thursday, December 19.
“If you look at the situation, knowing what is happening now, the situation in 2021, 2022, what I thought: I will think about what a decision was made at the beginning of 2022, it is necessary It is better to be the first thing we know, we just have to start preparing for these events, including “SVO” (as they call the war against Russia – ed.),” he said. Putin, answering the question of what he would change in his decision in February 2022, more than two years after the start of the aggressive war against the Ukrainian people.
According to him, Russia “voluntarily” annexed Crimea in 2014, so “we also started the events of 2022 without any special preparations.”
“Well, why did we start? But since it was no longer possible to stand and endure, wait for the situation to worsen for us, after all, the Kyiv authorities announced that they would not comply with the agreements in Minsk, they did some claim to weapons of mass destruction,” Putin said.
He repeated the propaganda theses about eight years of “destruction of people in Donbass,” and also that Russia seems to have been deceived about the Minsk agreements.
“If we know what will happen in advance, then, of course, it is necessary to carry out such a systematic, serious preparation. This is exactly what I have in mind,” concluded the owner of the Kremlin.
Earlier on Thursday, Vladimir Putin called the war a “movement.” He made it clear that he started the war in Ukraine so that the Russians would not be sad.
Putin also suggested striking Kyiv with an Oreshnik missile to test whether Western air defense systems could intercept it.
Source: korrespondent
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