Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to react quickly if other countries move in Ukraine. “If someone wants to intervene in the situation in Ukraine and pose a strategic threat, the attacks will be lightning fast,” Putin said, according to Russian news agencies.
According to Putin, in the event of a threat to Russia, the country “will use, in response, tools that its rivals do not yet have.” Today, the war launched by the Russian government on Ukrainian soil has reached its 63rd day. Putin made the announcement at a meeting with the Legislative Assembly in Russia.
According to the Russian president, Ukraine has been pushed into direct confrontation with Russia from the outside. At the beginning of the conflict, the Russian government justified the invasion by citing the possibility that Ukraine was part of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), a military alliance that included the United States as its main leader. Russia’s point of view.
Putin also said that “the world’s opponents of the Russian Federation” do not need a country as large as Russia. According to him, Western countries are betting on Russian hostility as a new geopolitical weapon. “The enemies of our country have accelerated the creation of a new geopolitical weapon.”
“Patriotism is one of the main pillars of the Russian state and the most important value for our society, which always manifests itself in decisive moments for the country,” the President also said.
Putin added that “this unity of people is very valuable, it allows Russia to adequately respond to the most difficult challenges and threats and confidently pass all tests.” “So it was always like that, and it will be like that now.”
attacks in Ukraine
The Russian Ministry of Defense said in a report on Wednesday that “more than 120 nationalist and 35 armored vehicles were destroyed” as a result of air strikes on occupied Ukraine 63 days ago. The government also said it had destroyed “a large amount” of weapons supplied to Ukraine by the United States and European countries. In total, Russian forces stated that “rocket and artillery units completed 573 fire missions in one night.” Information could not be verified with independent sources.
According to the ministry, “The hangars with a large amount of foreign weapons and ammunition delivered to the Ukrainian forces by the United States and European countries were destroyed by sea-fired high-precision Kalbir missiles at the aluminum plant in Zaporizhzhia, southeast of Ukraine” .
Russia reported explosions even in towns close to the Ukrainian border that did not take these measures.
The Ukrainian government estimates that it will take three or more weeks for the new weapons promised by the allied countries in recent days to reach Ukraine and be effective in the conflict. “It will be late May or early June, when the required amount comes and starts to have a serious impact on the battlefield,” Oleksiy Arestovych, adviser to the head of the Ukrainian Presidential Cabinet, said in an interview. Said.
The use of Allied weapons already constitutes a warning to conflict, as Russia has indicated that it is ready to retaliate if used. The US plans to hold monthly summits with allied countries and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) on the situation in Ukraine.
Russia has cut off gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria as of today in response to the sanctions it has been subjected to. The move is in retaliation as the Russian government retaliates for countries’ refusal to pay rubles for energy and supports Ukraine in the war. The EU (European Union) described the Russian measure as “blackmail”.
(with Reuters, AFP, DW and Ansa)
source: Noticias
