The Russian President, Vladimir Putinwho is in Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan for his participation in the Caspian Sea summit, has indicated that “nothing has changed” with respect to his objectives in Ukraine since he decreed the “special military operation” on February 24.
The Russian president has once again stressed that “the ultimate goal” of Moscow is the liberation of the region of the Donbas. Likewise, he has emphasized that his military actions are not directed against civilian targets and that “there was no terrorist attack” in the Kremenchuk shopping center, referring to the words of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
According to the Interfax news agency, the preparation of the I’LL TAKE for a confrontation with Moscow is not new. “The fact that they have been preparing for some kind of action against us since 2014 is not new,” she said, adding that this explains the security measures. Moscow to protect their own interests.
In this sense, he underlined that they made Ukraine anti-Russia and “a springboard” to try to shake up Russia. “They started to fight against the Russian culture, the Russian language, they started to persecute people who feel part of the Russian world,” she explained.
On the other hand, the president has referred to the video that has circulated of the G7 leaders in which they joke about taking off their jackets and stripping. “I don’t know how they wanted to strip, to the waist or below the waist. I think it would be a disgusting sight in any case,” she has said.
Along the same lines, he commented on the words of the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnsonwho said before the microphones of the German network ZDF that, if he had been 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 Falkland Islands. Here, a woman decided to start hostilities. Where are the Falkland Islands and where is Great Britain?” .
Accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO
The Russian president has emphasized that the membership of Finland and Sweden in NATO It is not the same as Ukraine’s entry into the Atlantic Alliance, as reported by the Russian news agency TASS.
“As to Sweden and Finland. We don’t have the problems with Sweden and Finland that we unfortunately have with the Ukraine. We don’t have problems or territorial disputes, we don’t have anything that can bother us in terms of Finnish or Swedish membership in NATO,” she clarified.
Despite this, he stressed that if military contingents and military infrastructure are deployed, Moscow will have to “respond in a mirror image and create the same threats for them.” “I repeat, if threats are created,” he clarified, adding that there is probably “some tension.”
“The thesis that we fight against NATO expansion at the expense of Ukraineand now we get it by accepting Sweden and Finland, it has no serious foundations,” Putin said, adding that Western countries “always spoke of their exclusivity and introduced into the consciousness of the world community the thesis and the slogan that ‘the who is not with us is against us.
“Through the hands of the Ukrainians, the Ukrainian people, the I’LL TAKE and the main NATO countries simply want to reassert themselves, reassert their role in the world. Not to confirm his leadership, but his hegemony in the strictest sense of the word: his imperial ambitions “, he has settled.
(With information from Europe Press)