'They have one goal: to disband the former Soviet Union and its fundamental part, the Russian Federation,' the Russian leader claims.
as an existential battle for the survival of Russia and the Russian people, and said he was forced to take into account NATO’s nuclear capabilities.
Putin said the West wanted to divide up Russia and then control the world’s biggest producer of raw materials, a step, he said, that could well lead to the destruction of many of the peoples of Russia including the ethnic Russian majority. Putin said the tens of billions of dollars’ worth of US and European military assistance to Ukraine showed thatUkraine says it will not rest until every last Russian soldier is ejected from Ukraine, including from Crimea which Russia annexed in 2014.Putin’s existential framing of the war allows the 70-year-old Kremlin chief to gird the Russian people for a much more deeper conflict while it also allows him much greater freedom in the types of weapons he could one day use.
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