Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, has reiterated that the army is in Ukraine to defend Russian speakers from a “neo-Nazi dictatorship” while his forces begin missile and drone raids throughout the neighboring nation.
Putin promised that all of the objectives Moscow has set for itself in the war, which is already in its third year, would be “achieved” in a video message that was published on Monday to commemorate the second anniversary of what Russia refers to as “Reunification Day,” when it annexed four areas of Ukraine.
He said, “The truth is on our side.” “Together, we are fighting for our children and grandchildren to have a safe and prosperous future.” Additionally, the president claimed that the “neo-Nazi dictatorship” in Kyiv sought to “forever separate Russian speakers from their historic Motherland, from Russia.
” The Ukrainian government and its allies have consistently rejected these accusations as a flimsy justification for a larger campaign of aggression. According to the Kremlin website, Putin further stated that “Western elites” had “systematically instilled hatred and radical nationalism, fuelled hostility towards everything Russia” after making “Ukraine into their colony, into a military outpost aimed at Russia.”
He added that Western countries supplied weapons and dispatched mercenaries to prepare Ukraine for a new war “so that again, as in the spring and summer of 2014, to launch a punitive operation in the southeast