On December 25, a short excerpt from an interview with Vladimir Poutine was broadcast on Russian television. In this sequence, the Russian president does not hesitate to openly criticize the role played by the West in this open conflict that has lasted for more than ten months . According to him, the West seeks to ” divide “ Russia, while the Kremlin’s military offensive in its neighbor should, on the contrary, allow “Russian People’s Union”. “Everything is based on the policy of our geopolitical adversaries, who aim to divide Russia, historical Russia”he denounced.
“‘Divide and conquer’: they have always tried to do it, they are trying to do it now, but our objective is quite different: to unite the Russian people”, he lambasted. Indeed, the Russian President had already justified the military intervention in Ukraine on several occasions by the need to bring Ukrainians and Russians together , which would form only one and the same people, in his eyes. For Vladimir Putin, the Russian army “moving in the right direction” in Ukraine.
Putin reaffirms that he is “ready to negotiate”
Vladimir Putin in this excerpt once again denounced the position of kyiv and its Western allies which “refuse talks”he reaffirming himself “ready to negotiate with all participants in this process to (obtain) acceptable results”. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has, for his part, swept away in recent months the possibility of talks with Moscow as it stands, saying it does not want to start talks with Russia “as long as Putin is president”.
Destroy the American Patriot system “100%”
This week, Volodymyr Zelensky left his visit to the United States with an envelope of 45 billion dollars of aid planned in the next American federal budget. But above all, he obtained validation for the forthcoming delivery of a Patriot air defense system, which kyiv had been demanding for several weeks.
Faced with this news, Vladimir Putin assured that the Patriot system will be ” destroy “ if delivered to Ukraine. “Of course we will destroy it, (sure) 100%! »he launched, three days after having affirmed that his army would find “an antidote” to counter “this rather old system”.
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On Saturday, across the day, Russia fired 41 missiles at the city, according to a morning report from the Ukrainian military. On the ground, a series of Russian strikes hit the city center of Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine liberated on November 11, after eight months of occupation by troops from Moscow. The central market and adjacent streets were bombarded, killing at least 10 and injuring 55, an act of “terror” according to Volodymyr Zelensky.
War in Ukraine: for Vladimir Putin, the West wants to “divide” Russia