Russian President Vladimir Putin this Sunday again accused NATO of joining the war in Ukraine by supplying weapons to the armed forces of Kiev and the West because they wanted to destroy Russia.
“They are sending tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons to Ukraine. This is really getting involved,” Putin said this in an interview with the channel Rossia-1, quoted by the French agency AFP.
This means that they participate, even indirectly, in the crimes of the Kiev regime.said the Russian leader.
Ukraine’s Western allies have supplied Ukrainian troops with weapons to face the Russian forces, which invaded the country on February 24, 2022.
Putin, in power since 2000, he said Western countries have only one goal: “to destroy the former Soviet Union and its largest part, the Russian Federation”.
In the interview, the Russian president also reiterated his call to create a multipolar world.
“What are we against? Against the fact that this new world that is emerging is being built only for the sake of one country, the United States of America,” he said.
Putin added that he felt compelled to respond given the United States’ attempts to “reshape the world in its image after the fall of the Soviet Union” in 1991.
Putin announced the offensive a year ago, denounced the West’s maneuvers against Russia and said he did not want to repeat the mistake of Josef Stalin, who saw the Soviet Union attacked by Nazi Germany forces despite the non-compliance. pact of aggression signed with Adolf Hitler. .
“We will not make this mistake a second time,” Putin said at the time.
Putin ordered the invasion on February 24, 2022 to “demilitarize and denazify” the neighboring country.
The “special military operation,” as Moscow calls it, sparked a full-scale war that plunged Europe into what is considered the most serious security crisis since World War II (1939-1945).
The number of civilian and military casualties from the conflict is unknown, but several sources, including the UN, have admitted it will be high.
Ukraine’s western allies celebrated the first anniversary of the war on Friday by announcing increased military aid to Kiev and new sanctions against Moscow.
Source: DN
