2023-11-28 21:04:00
“We have become stronger,” Putin said on Tuesday in a video message to the meeting of the so-called World Council of the Russian People, an organization under the auspices of the Russian Orthodox Church.
He also highlighted Russia’s annexation of Ukrainian territories, which was internationally condemned as a breach of international law, as a success. Modern Russia has regained and consolidated “its sovereignty as a world power,” Putin said. In contrast, he sees the West, which imposed sanctions on Russia during the war, as economically weakened and isolated on the international stage. Putin once once more accused the West of wanting to sow misery and chaos in Russia by striving for dominance in order to bring the largest country in the world in terms of area to collapse. Such attempts are doomed to failure.
“They also started with the old story that Russia is supposedly a ‘prison for the peoples’ and that the ‘Russians themselves are slaves,'” said the 71-year-old a few months before the presidential election. Putin is expected to run for a fifth term at the polls in March. But he hasn’t officially declared this yet.
“There is no stable world order without Russia”
Putin used the meeting, which was also attended by representatives of politics, business, culture and other religions in Moscow, as a kind of campaign speech and portrayed Russia as a “champion of a fairer world order.” “Without a sovereign and strong Russia, there is no long-term stable one World order possible,” he said – speaking from Sochi on the Black Sea. Putin also held a minute’s silence to commemorate those who died in his war.
Ukraine, which was attacked by Russia, sees the country as a “terrorist state” that wants to impose a dictatorship on other peoples striving for freedom. Putin brought death and destruction to the neighboring country with his war, which he started on February 24, 2022.
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