1 of 1 Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers the annual address to the Parliament in Moscow — Photo: Sputnik/Sergei Karpukhin/Pool via Portal Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers the annual address to the Parliament in Moscow — Photo: Sputnik/Sergei Karpukhin/ Pool via Portal
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday (21) accused the United States and European countries of wanting to destroy his country and issued a fresh wave of threats days before a year had elapsed since the invasion of Ukraine.
On one rare speech personal done only at strategic moments throughout the war Putin promised the war would go on, said his country had “all the resources” to keep fighting and warned the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that it was “impossible” to turn Russia on to hit the battlefield.
The Russian president addressed an audience composed of members of Russia’s parliament and the country’s armed forces and its ministers, days before the neighboring country’s invasion of a year ended. He said he would like to resolve the conflict with Ukraine peacefully, but Western countries have staged a different scenario behind Russia’s back.
“We did everything possible, really everything possible, to solve this problem (in Ukraine) in a peaceful way. We were patient, we negotiated our way out of this difficult conflict peacefully, but a completely different scenario is being prepared behind our backs. “, he said. the Russian President.
According to Putin, the war is the result of a United Statesled search by Western countries for a “unlimited power” in world affairs.
Kiev reacted to the speech with irony. Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said Putin’s speech shows that the Russian leader has “lost touch with reality”.
“He (Putin) hit a dead end, and anything he does will only make his situation worse. Russian elites will resent him and begin to doubt his ability to rule the country,” he said, according to Portal.
Biden in Kyiv
Putin’s speech comes a day after an unprecedented visit to Kiev by US President Joe Biden. Biden walked the streets of the Ukrainian capital with Zelenskyy and announced an additional US$500 million (more than R$2.5 billion) in aid alongside the Ukrainian leader, adding to the nearly US$50 billion previously offered is added USA to Ukraine.
Putin’s speech was taken as a reaction to Biden’s trip.