Vladimir Putin in Russia’s Victory Day ceremony has made a speech, where he did not reveal the Kremlin’s further steps in its war against Ukraine. He, however, sought to justify the aggression against the democratic neighbour pointing at the NATO and the US, Riga-based Russian news portal Meduza reports.
The Russian President, who has been blamed for genocide, war crimes and inflicting massive loss of live and widespread destruction in Ukraine, referred to the war against Ukraine, started by him on February 24, as the «special military operation». Here is how Putin sought to justify his invasion that brought more sanctions and economic pain to Russia.
«In December of last year, we proposed signing a new treaty on security guarantees. Russia called on the West to have an honest dialogue; to search for reasonable solutions and compromises; and to take each other’s interests into account. All of it was in vain. The NATO countries didn’t want to hear what we had to say — which means they had completely different plans. And we could see it.
They were openly preparing for another punitive operation in the Donbas — for an invasion of our historical lands, including Crimea. In Kyiv, they announced the possible acquisition of nuclear weapons. The NATO bloc began actively trying to assimilate the territories adjacent to us by military means.
In this way, they began systematically creating an absolutely inaccessible threat — and directly on our borders. All signs indicated that a clash with neo-Nazis, Banderites, on whom the United States and their junior partners had placed their bets, was inevitable,» Putin said as quoted by Meduza.
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