Russia, Putin’s speech

“We will achieve our goals“. This is the beginning of the speech that the President of Russia, Vladimir Putinheld at the Federal Assembly in Moscow, approaching theanniversary of the start of the invasion of Ukraine on February 24th. The day after the visit of US President Joe Biden to Kyiv, where he reiterated the sPutin gave a speech in which he reiterated the usual unfounded theses with which he justified the war against Kyiv in the last year. Like the fake news about the neo-Nazi regime installed in Ukraine “There is a very great responsibility upon each of us to defend our country and liquidate the threat of the neo-Nazi regime“the Russian president said: “The Ukrainian people are held hostage by the Nazi regime in Kyiv“. Yes, there are neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine, some of which even opposed the rapprochement between Russia and Ukraine at the time of the Maidan Square protests in 2014, but the government has no such orientation and President Volodymyr Zelensky comes from a family of Jewish origin .

Putin insisted on the war threat: “It is theImpossible to defeat Russia on the battlefield“. And he added: “The more they use long-range systems, the more we will have to keep the threat away from our borders, it is clear and natural. The West’s goal is to lead Russia to a strategic defeat, they want to eliminate us forever. They do not realize that Russia’s very existence is at stake“.

Again, Putin accused the West of plotting against Moscow and not attacking first. In his speech to Russia, the number one of the Kremlin argued that theUkraine “wanted to acquire nuclear weapons. We had no doubts that in February they had punitive operations ready in the Donbass, where they had already carried out bombings and this was in contradiction with the UN resolution. They started war, we use force to stop war”.

“Kyiv not only wanted to attack Donbass, but also Crimea – added Putin -. The West prepared Ukraine for a big war and today recognizes it. The West has already spent 150 billion dollars on military aid to Ukraine, the flow of money does not decrease“. Putin accused the West of also supporting Nazi militias in Ukraine, because to Westerners”they don’t care about anything, and are ready to use anyone“ against Russia. The freedom and rights recognized by some Western democracies are also targeted. “Forgive them Lord, for they do not know what they are doing… Putin said. There are even priests who approve of same-sex marriages”.