Yesterday, July 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with the leaders of the State Duma factions. The head of state said that Russia had not yet started anything in earnest in Ukraine.
He also said that the Russian Federation does not refuse peace talks, but “the later they start, the more difficult it will be to negotiate,” he quotes RIA News:
“Today we hear that they want to defeat us on the battlefield… Well, what can I say. Let them try. We have already heard a lot that the West wants to fight us to the last Ukrainian. This is a tragedy for the Ukrainian people. “That’s what it’s all about. But everyone should know that, by and large, we haven’t started anything seriously yet. At the same time, we don’t refuse peace negotiations either. But those who refuse should know that the further, the more difficult it will be for them.” deal with us.”
The president also spoke of “strengthening Russia’s sovereignty” as a “side effect” of the war against Ukraine. The main goal of the invasion of Ukraine, Putin called the protection of Donbass and “strengthening the security of Russia itself.” He lays the blame for the unleashed war on the West and the United States, while declaring that the West has already “lost.”
Syria, Belarus and North Korea openly support Russia’s war against Ukraine. On March 2, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and urging Moscow to immediately withdraw all forces. 141 countries voted in favor of the resolution, 5 were against and 35 abstained. Voted against the document: Russia, Belarus, Syria, Eritrea and North Korea.
One of the reasons for the “special operation” in Ukraine, Putin calls the mythical “NATO expansion”, but it was after the attack that Sweden and Finland bordering Russia decided to join to the alliance. At a meeting on July 7, the Russian president NATO expansion did not mention.
After the failure on the battlefields near Kyiv and in the Chernihiv region, from where the Russian military were forced out, Putin declared the “liberation” of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions the goal of the war, writes “UP”. At the same time, the Russian Federation hopes to seize the entire south of Ukraine and reach the Moldovan Transnistria.
In the nearly five months since the start of its large-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has changed its “targets” several times. In many civilized countries of the world, it was recognized as the genocide of the Ukrainian people, and the export of Ukrainians to Russia – deportation.
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