Russian ambassador to UK: “Russia is impossible to beat. Our resources are enormous” | Abroad

According to Kelin, Western leaders made a capital mistake when they thought that Ukraine could win the war with the help of their money and weapons. “Russia is impossible to beat,” he said. “Compared to Ukraine, we have a stable political situation and a rapidly developing economy. Our resources are enormous.”

The top diplomat does not say that the stable political situation results from Putin’s authoritarian rule and that the economy is not doing badly in the short term due to the war industry, but is doomed in the long term. Moreover, he describes defeats such as the withdrawal of Russian troops from Kiev just after the invasion in February 2022 as “a show of goodwill”.

Kelin does not see the fact that Russia has already lost more than 3,000 tanks, according to a report by the British think tank ‘International Institute for Strategic Studies’, as a problem. “We have enough,” he said laconically.

The Russian ambassador also said in the interview that Moscow has “no interest” in Poland, Latvia, Estonia or any other NATO country. According to him, warnings that Russia would want to attack NATO countries are completely out of the air. “We fully understand that any escalation outside Ukraine will trigger an international conflict, destroying everything. We cannot support this.”

Putin has also always insisted that Russia would never invade Ukraine, but did so two years ago. The ambassador himself claimed it barely a month before the actual invasion.