He President of Russia Vladimir Putinhas announced the suspension of participation in he Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty” (START) of which it is a part USA, which limits the size of the arsenal of both powers. This was announced by the Russian leader in the speech of the state of the nation pronounced in the Duma -two Houses of the Russian Parliament-. The traditional speech held annually in December was postponed this year to coincide with the first anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine.
Putin, moreover, He devoted part of his speech to blame the west of the Ukrainian war. “They started the war and we used force to stop it,” said the Russian president. “The West fights against us warily, economically and propagandistically,” he said putin. “They have not achieved anything”, he has abounded in a long-awaited speech that, however, does not bring any remarkable news beyond the demonization of West.
the russian leader has stated that to the extent that Ukraine receive more weapons, the more Russian borders will have to be fortified. “They want to destroy us and turn a local conflict into a global one,” she said, adding: “Russia is invincible on a battlefield, we will react”.
The president has assured that there were negotiations between kyiv and the West but ended with a cruel lie by attacking the Donbas. kyiv wanted nuclear weapons, the president has said.
The Russian leader has stated that during the Munich Security Conference last week – a high-level international meeting – many accusations were leveled at Russia to divert attention from Western actions. He again blames the war on the West, saying that they “let the genie out of the bottle” and plunged the entire world into chaos.
Open the way for the Nazis
In the same line, putin accuses West to “open the way” for the nazis seized power in the 1930s, and claims that since the 19th century the West has been trying to wrest from Russia its “historical lands”, “what is now called the Ukraine”. “Everything repeats itself,” he says putinadding that the West financed the revolution of 2014 in Ukraine that overthrew a pro-Russian government. According to him, this “gave rise to Russophobia, to extreme nationalism.”
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Regarding the sanctions against Russia, Putin has assured that it has a negative impact on the countries that impose them: “They raise prices, close factories and blame the Russians.” Russia’s economy, he claims, has survived the risks. “They said that our economy is going to collapse but it has survived,” he added.
He has announced aid to the victims of the war through a state fund. Similar to the structure of the veterans of the Second World War as well as the granting of 14-day vacations to volunteers on the war front.