Putin assures that “nothing has changed” regarding his objectives in Ukraine since last February 24

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Putin says that “they have no problems” or anything that “can bother them” from Finland and Sweden in the framework of their accession to NATO

June 29. () –

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is in Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan for his participation in the Caspian Sea summit, has indicated that “nothing has changed” regarding his objectives in Ukraine since he decreed the “special military operation “On February 24.

The Russian president has once again stressed that “the ultimate goal” of Moscow is the liberation of the Donbas region. Likewise, he has emphasized that his military actions are not directed against civilian targets and that “there was no terrorist attack” in the Kremenchuk shopping center, referring to the words of Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky.

According to the Interfax news agency, NATO’s preparation for a confrontation with Moscow is not new. “The fact that they have been preparing for some kind of action against us since 2014 is not new,” she said, adding that this explains Moscow’s moves to protect its own interests.

In this sense, he stressed that they made Ukraine anti-Russian and “a springboard” to try to shake Russia. “They started to fight against the Russian culture, the Russian language, they started to persecute people who feel part of the Russian world,” she explained.

On the other hand, the president has referred to the video that has circulated of the G7 leaders in which they joke about taking off their jackets and undressing. “I don’t know how they wanted to strip, to the waist or below the waist. I think it would be a disgusting sight in any case,” he has said.

Along the same lines, he commented on the words of the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, who said before the microphones of the German network ZDF that, if he had been a woman, Putin would not have invaded Ukraine.

“I just want to recall the facts of recent history in this regard, when Margaret Thatcher decided to start hostilities against Argentina over the Malvinas Islands. Here, a woman decided to start hostilities. Where are the Malvinas Islands and where is Great Britain?” .

ACCESSION OF FINLAND AND SWEDEN TO NATO

The Russian president has emphasized that the membership of Finland and Sweden in NATO is not the same as Ukraine’s entry into the Atlantic Alliance, as reported by the Russian news agency TASS.

“As for Sweden and Finland. We don’t have the problems with Sweden and Finland that, unfortunately, we have with Ukraine. We don’t have problems or territorial disputes, we don’t have anything that can bother us in terms of Finnish or Swedish membership in NATO. “, he clarified.

Despite this, he stressed that if military contingents and military infrastructure are deployed, Moscow will have to “respond in a mirror image and create the same threats for them.” “I repeat, if threats are created,” he clarified, adding that there is probably “some tension.”

“The thesis that we fought against the expansion of NATO at the expense of Ukraine, and now we achieve it by accepting Sweden and Finland, has no serious foundation,” Putin said, adding that Western countries “always talked about their exclusivity and introduced in the conscience of the world community the thesis and the slogan that ‘he who is not with us is against us'”.

“Through the hands of the Ukrainians, the Ukrainian people, NATO and the main NATO countries simply want to reassert themselves, reassert their role in the world. Not to confirm their leadership, but their hegemonism in the strictest sense of the word : his imperial ambitions”, he settled.