In an interview broadcast on Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused NATO of participating in the conflict in Ukraine by supplying weapons to forces in kyiv.
Vladimir Putin said: “They are sending tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons to Ukraine. This is really participation. This means that they take part, albeit indirectly, in the crimes of the kyiv regime”. He also claimed that Western countries had “one goal: to destroy the former Soviet Union and its main part, the Russian Federation”.
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Speaking on the sidelines of a patriotic concert last Thursday, on the eve of the first anniversary of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, the Russian president added: “Only then will they accept us perhaps in the so-called family of civilized peoples, but only separately, each part separately”.
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In this interview, the Russian President also called for the creation of a multipolar world, reiterating: “What are we against? Against the fact that this new world that is emerging is being built solely in the interest of a single country, the United States. Now that their attempts to reconfigure the world in their image after the fall of the Soviet Union have led to this situation, we are well obliged to react”.
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