Vladimir Putin accused the West of using Ukraine as a training ground and battering ram against the Russian Federation.
Western countries use Ukraine both as a battering ram against Russia and as a training ground. This was stated by President Vladimir Putin in a message to the Federal Assembly.
“Responsibility for inciting the Ukrainian conflict, for the escalation, for the increase in the number of its victims lies entirely with the Western elites and, of course, with the current Kiev regime, for which the Ukrainian people are, in fact, a stranger,” he said. “The current Ukrainian regime serves not national interests, but the interests of third countries. The West is using Ukraine both as a battering ram against Russia and as a testing ground.”
According to Putin, the “anti-Russia” project is, in fact, part of a revanchist policy towards Russia, aimed at creating hotbeds of instability and conflicts right at its borders.
“And then, in the 30s of the last century, and now the idea is the same – to direct aggression to the East. To kindle a war in Europe with the wrong hands, to eliminate competitors”, he said.
“We are not at war with the people of Ukraine, I have already spoken about this many times. He, the people of Ukraine, himself became a hostage of the Kyiv regime and its Western masters, who actually occupied this country in the political, military, economic sense,” the president stressed.
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