‘What do they actually want? [no Ocidente]? ‘What they really want is to chop up and plunder Russia. Violence doesn’t work for them, so they sow chaos.”said the Kremlin leader.
According to Putin, the West “in principle has no need for a country as big and multinational as Russia.”
“Our diversity and unity of cultures, traditions, languages and ethnic groups do not fit into the logic of racists and Western colonizers, in their cruel system of total dehumanization, division, oppression and exploitation,” he declared.
Putin criticized that “Russophobia and other forms of racism and neo-Nazism are today practically the official ideology of Western ruling elites”.
“We consider any external interference, any provocation aimed at provoking inter-ethnic or inter-religious conflicts, as aggressive actions against our country, as an attempt to relaunch terrorism and extremism against Russia, as a tool to fight against us,” the government declared. The Russian president left behind words that refer to the country’s heritage.
“The Russian world consists of all generations of our ancestors, our descendants. The Russian world is old Russia, Muscovy, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and today’s Russia, which is restoring, strengthening and multiplying its sovereignty as a world power,” he emphasized. .
At the beginning of his speech, Putin called for a minute of silence in honor of those who died during the military campaign in Ukraine: “They fought for us, for our country. Eternal glory.”
One of the reasons given by the Kremlin for launching the military campaign in the neighboring country is the defense of what is known as the “Russian world”, that is, the post-Soviet geographical space where ethnic Russians live and the language of the poet and playwright is spoken Alexander Pushkin.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 22, 2022, on the grounds of “denazification” of the neighboring country, which has been independent since 1991 after the collapse of the former Soviet Union and has since seen the country move away from Moscow’s sphere of influence. and the West.
The war in Ukraine, which has already caused tens of thousands of deaths on both sides, has seen no significant progress in recent months, with both sides remaining irreducible to their territorial positions and not open to negotiating concessions.
Source: DN
