New Year’s Speech – Putin’s sweeping attack on the “hypocritical” West

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, on the other hand, thanked Germany for its support on Saturday. In a tweet in German at the end of the year, Selenskyj thanked German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for his support and the new direction of Berlin’s security policy. “Arms deliveries, protection for over a million Ukrainians, G7 presidency with focus on Ukraine, financial and technical assistance, EU candidate status. Thanks for the turning point, Herr @Bundeskanzler!” he tweeted on Saturday.

“May we complete it in 2023 with our joint victory,” said the head of state, referring to the turning point declared by Scholz, by which the government in Berlin had also initiated military support for Ukraine in defense against the Russian offensive war. In the face of massive Russian drone and missile attacks, Ukraine is hoping for significantly more military aid, for example in the field of air defense. Experts also believe that the country needs a lot more weapons and ammunition to defeat Russia.

All-round attack by Putin against the West
It is clear to Russia’s head of state, Putin, that the West “lied” about peace “while preparing for aggression, and now it openly and unhesitatingly admits it”. In addition, the West is cynically using Ukraine and its people “to weaken and divide Russia,” Putin said in his New Year’s address. “We have never allowed anyone to do this and never will,” he stressed.

Western elites have been hypocritically proclaiming their peaceful intentions, including resolving the Donbass conflict, for years, according to the Kremlin chief. “In fact, they encouraged neo-Nazis in every possible way to continue military and openly terrorist actions against the civilian population of the Donbass People’s Republics,” the Russian president added.

Shoigu: “Victory over Ukraine inevitable”
In his New Year’s message, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said victory over Ukraine was inevitable, but acknowledged that the situation on the front lines remained difficult. He also spoke out in his speech against “those who try to erase our glorious history and our great achievements, destroy monuments to the victors of fascism, put war criminals on a pedestal, and erase and desecrate everything Russian .”

Meanwhile, Kiev’s Defense Minister Oleksiy Resnikov warned in a video in Russian that the Kremlin would mobilize again early this year and promised that Ukraine would not give up. There is a choice between avoiding military service or dying in Ukraine or becoming a “cripple,” Resnikov said in the YouTube video.