Russia and Ukraine: Putin’s threatening message against “scum and traitors” among Russian oligarchs who align with the West

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President Vladimir Putin’s onslaught once morest Russia’s upper-class “traitors” shocked many on Wednesday.

In a meeting with Russian government ministers, Putin noted that The West seeks to use a “fifth column” of disloyal Russians to their country and aligned with Western life to cause division among the Russian people regarding the conflict with Ukraine.

But he said that his people will know how to differentiate the scum and traitors of the patriots.

“Of course they (the West) will try to bet on the so-called fifth column, the traitorsto those who earn their money here, but live there. They live, not in the geographical sense, but in the sense of their thoughts, their servile thought“Putin said.

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