Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that the United States is trying to prolong the war in Ukraine and accused Washington of wanting to “parasitize” the world by intervening in other countries.
The statements were made during a speech by the Russian leader at an international security conference in Moscow. Putin’s speech was videotaped and shown to the meeting participants.
For Putin, the US, in addition to trying to prolong the war in Ukraine, also wants to “drape” conflicts in other regions into chaos and increase the influence of the West in the world. “They are doing the same to provoke conflicts in Asia, Africa and Latin America,” said the Russian President.
“The United States and its vassals interfere heavily in the internal affairs of sovereign states: they organize provocations, coups and civil wars,” he added.
He also accused US President Joe Biden’s regime of “forcing independent states to comply with their wishes”. [Estados Unidos]’ and ‘living under foreign rule through threats, blackmail, and coercion’.
All this is done for one purpose: to maintain its dominance, the model that allows it to parasitize the entire world as it did centuries ago. Such a model can only be preserved by force. Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The war in Ukraine began on February 24 and lasted more than five months. But Moscow says the occupation of Ukrainian territory is not a conflict, but a “special operation”.
“The objectives of this operation are clearly and precisely defined – it is to ensure the safety of Russia and our citizens, to protect the inhabitants of Donbass from genocide,” Putin said in his speech today.
Donbass is the region where Donetsk and Lugansk are located, two Ukrainian regions currently occupied by pro-Russian separatist militants.
“They need conflicts to maintain their hegemony. That’s why they prepared cannon fodder for the Ukrainian people, implemented the ‘anti-Russian’ project, condoned the spread of neo-Nazi ideology, the massacres of the residents of the region. The President of Russia said that the Donbass inflated the Kyiv regime with weapons and continues to inflate it. told.
Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan
Putin also drew parallels between US support for Ukraine and US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit to Taiwan, saying both moves are part of Washington’s attempt to fuel global instability.
“America’s Taiwan adventure was not just an irresponsible policy trip. It was part of a conscious and conscious strategy of the United States to destabilize the situation and create chaos in the region and the world. .from another country and its international obligations,” he said.
‘Sabotage’
According to images shared on social media, a military installation in Crimea caught fire this morning, spewing large columns of smoke.
In a statement quoted by Russian news agencies, the Russian military said the military depot near Dzhankoi in northern Crimea was “damaged by an act of sabotage on the morning of August 16”.
The army did not name those responsible and stated that the incident did not cause serious casualties. He had previously reported that the fire started at 06:15 local time, causing the stored ammunition to explode.
A week ago, one person was killed and five injured in similar explosions at a Russian airbase in Crimea.
Ukraine did not directly take responsibility for these events, but senior officials and the military implied that it was involved in such an event.
Ukraine: Crimea at high risk of death
“Crimea is the Black Sea, mountains, recreation and tourism in a normal country. High risk of death for invaders and thieves,” Mikhailo Podoliak, adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, said on Tuesday.
The Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, annexed by Moscow in 2014, is at the forefront of Russia’s military offensive against the former Soviet republic.
Image: STRINGER/REUTERS
Russian military aircraft take off from this area almost daily to attack targets in areas under Kiev’s control. At the same time, various parts of this peninsula are within range of Ukrainian artillery and drones.
Meanwhile, in the eastern Donbass region, the epicenter of the conflict, Ukraine has condemned Russia’s launch of a massive offensive against an oil refinery in the recently captured city of Lysychansk in the Lugansk province.
A woman was killed and two others injured in a Russian attack in the neighboring Donetsk province, which is also part of Donbass, according to the Ukrainian presidency.
This important mining area, which has been the scene of conflict with pro-Russian separatists since 2014, is almost entirely under Moscow’s control.
On the other hand, tensions continue on the southern front, in the Kherson region, around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, which has been occupied by Russian forces since the beginning of March.
This Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke on the phone for over an hour with Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky about the situation at the facility.
* With information from AFP and Agência Estado
source: Noticias
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