In an interview with the state broadcaster, the autocrat also accused the West of being complicit in what he called “crimes” committed by Kyiv.
A year after invading Ukraine in a conflict that left at least 40,000 Ukrainian civilians on holiday and 8,000 dead, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he cannot “ignore” the nuclear power of countries that are part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO), a military alliance led by the United States that, according to him, has the objective of ending the Russian Federation. In an interview aired this Sunday, 26, on state television Rossiya 1, the autocrat also accused the West of being complicit in what he classified as “crimes” committed by the government of Volodymyr Zelensky.
For the head of the Moscow government, NATO plays an important role in the conflict with Ukraine by providing financial resources and weapons to Kyiv. “They are sending tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons to Ukraine. This means that they are participating, albeit indirectly, in the crimes carried out by the Kyiv regime.
Days ago Putin announced to Russian lawmakers that Russia was suspending its participation in the START treaty, which limits, for both Americans and Russians, the number of nuclear warheads, the use of ground bombing and the development of missile-launching submarines. “In today’s conditions, when all major NATO countries have declared that their main objective is to inflict a strategic defeat on us so that our people suffer as they say, how can we ignore their nuclear capabilities under these conditions?” state broadcaster.
“Now that [the United States’] attempts to reconfigure the world in its own likeness after the fall of the Soviet Union have led to this situation, we are forced to react,” he declared.
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