Attacking Ukraine’s infrastructure is “inevitable” for Vladimir Putin, who spoke with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
LRussian President Vladimir Putin told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday that Russia’s massive strikes against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure were “necessary and unavoidable” and further condemned the West’s “destructive” stance in supporting Kyiv.
“The Russian Armed Forces have long avoided high-precision missile strikes against certain targets in Ukraine, but such actions have become necessary and unavoidable in the face of provocative attacks from Kyiv,” the Kremlin said in a statement. , summarizes Vladimir Putin’s comments to Olaf Scholz during their first interview since mid-September.
Mr. According to Putin, kyiv was responsible for the explosions that partially destroyed the Russian Crimean bridge and Russian energy installations, so Moscow is within its rights to bomb Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, leaving millions of citizens in the cold and dark.
Mr Putin, who launched his offensive on February 24, again complained that Western financial and military support for Ukraine had enabled Kyiv to inflict humiliating defeats on Russia.
Therefore, for the Russian president, the position of the West is “catastrophic”, because, strong in the political, financial and military support of the West, “Kyiv rejects the idea of any negotiations” and “incites Ukrainian radical nationalists. To commit bloody crimes.”
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Vladimir Putin thus Mr. He called on Scholes to “reconsider his approach in the context of Ukrainian events”.
Apart from Crimea, which was annexed in 2014, the Russian president ordered the annexation of four parts of Ukraine, even though he does not control them, at the end of September.
Kyiv for its part rejects any talks with Putin, not respecting its territorial integrity, including Crimea.
Militarily, the Russian army suffered several defeats, being forced to withdraw from the north of the country in April, then from part of the northeast in September, and finally from part of the south in November.
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