Russia did not start the war, Ukraine loses 50 thousand soldiers a month, the United States will replace Volodymyr Zelensky with another president in Kiev in 2025. These are some of the concepts that Vladimir Putin exposes in an interview to some international agencies on the sidelines of the economic forum in St. Petersburg, according to what Ria Novosti reports.
“Western weapons in Kiev very dangerous step”
For the Russian president, no one in the West wants to remember that the war in Ukraine began with a coup, for which Russia is not responsible. “Everyone believes that Russia started the war in Ukraine – he says – But no one, I want to underline this, no one in the West, in Europe, wants to remember how this tragedy began, with a coup in Ukraine: this is the beginning of the war. Is Russia responsible for this coup? No”.
Ukraine has just received the green light to use NATO-supplied weapons against military targets in Russia. Sending Western weapons represents “a very dangerous step”, says Putin. “Delivering weapons into a war zone is always bad. Even more so if those who are sending the weapons not only deliver them but also control them. This is a very serious and very dangerous step,” says the Kremlin leader, who calls it “a shock” to see German tanks in Ukraine.
The message to the West
If Moscow sees other countries involved in a war against Russia, it will reserve the right to act similarly, the Russian president says. “If we see that these countries are being dragged into a war against us, and this is their direct participation in the war against the Russian Federation, then we reserve the right to act similarly.”
Western instructors are already present on the territory of Ukraine and “suffer losses”, but the West prefers to keep everything quiet, he continues. “From the point of view of the presence of advisors and instructors, there is nothing new here: they are present on the territory of Ukraine and, unfortunately for them, suffer losses, I know for sure,” but “in European countries and the United States they prefer to keep everything quiet.”
“Ukraine loses 50 thousand men a month, we lose many less”
In the war that has been going on for over 2 years, Kiev loses “50 thousand soldiers a month”, while Russia’s losses in the war in Ukraine are “several times lower”, says Putin, who provides unverifiable figures. According to the Russian president, Ukraine currently holds 1,348 prisoners. In Russia, however, there would be 6,465 Ukrainian prisoners.
Among the various themes, spotlight on the United States. Washington, says Putin, supports Kiev because it wants to hinder Russia’s growth: the US “is interested in their leadership, not in Ukraine”. And for this reason they will archive Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when he is no longer functional, says Putin: it will happen “in spring 2025”, he says, maintaining that there would also be candidates for succession.
“USA will replace Zelensky”
The United States, he continues, are destroying themselves with their own hands during the ongoing internal political conflict. “Their state, their political system, is being destroyed from within, they are even setting their leadership on fire,” she claims. The American justice system, says the Russian president, is being used for internal political conflict “in the case of Donald Trump”.
After the November elections, regardless of the result, there will be no changes in terms of relations on the Washington-Moscow axis: “We think that nothing really serious will happen.”
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