Putin said the offensive operation in the Donbass does not stop, but Russia is "in no hurry"
" "The main task [military aggression against Ukraine] remains unchanged, and it is being realized," Putin commented. At the same time, the President of the Russian Federation emphasizes that the aggressor country is "not a full Russian army, but only its contractual part. " The Kremlin also believes that the Western countries have sought the collapse of the Soviet Union for many years, and now they also "cultivate" the idea of collapse of the Russian Federation.
"For decades, the idea of collapse of the Soviet Union and Russia as such, its core, has been constantly cultivated in the Western countries," he said. According to Putin, from some moment Ukraine was allegedly decided to use just to collapse the Russian Federation, making it a "anti -Russian enclave" and "threatening from this direction.
" In order to "prevent such development", Moscow has decided to start a "special military operation", the leader of the aggressor country continues to insist. At the same time, Putin stated that the West "did not wait for the collapse of Russia. " Answering the journalists' questions about negotiations with Ukraine, the Kremlin head specified that Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that he was not ready and did not want to talk to the aggressor country. "Well, not ready - no need," he added.
Commenting on the topic of the energy crisis in Europe, Putin noted that the European Union has created a problem "with their own hands", and now tries to solve it "at a foreign account". He stressed that the European Commission "should correct this mistake.
" Speaking of the proposal of the head of the EC Ursula von der Lien to send bills for electricity directly to the head of the Russian Federation, the President stated that it was "an attempt to translate a headache from a sick head to a healthy. " "The energy crisis in Europe began not from the beginning of a special military operation [meant a full -scale invasion of Ukraine]. Not from this, but a year earlier - from the" green agenda ", - commented the head of the Russian Federation.