Russian President Vladimir Putin accused NATO of participating in the conflict in Ukraine by supplying arms to kyiv forces, in an interview broadcast on Sunday.
“They are sending tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons to Ukraine. This is really participation,” Vladimir Putin said in an interview with the Rossïa-1 channel.
“This means that they take part, albeit indirectly, in the crimes of the kyiv regime,” said the Russian president.
“Destroy the former Soviet Union”
The Western countries, he further asserted, have “one goal only: to destroy the former Soviet Union and its main part, the Russian Federation”.
“Only then will they perhaps accept us into the so-called family of civilized peoples, but only separately, each part separately,” he added, speaking on the sidelines. a patriotic concert last Thursday, on the eve of the first anniversary of the Russian offensive in Ukraine.
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In this interview, the Russian president also reiterated his call for the creation of a multipolar world.
“What are we once morest? Against the fact that this new world that is emerging is being built solely in the interest of a single country, the United States. Now that their attempts to reconfigure the world in their image following the fall of the Soviet Union have led to this situation, we are well obliged to react,” he said.