The commander-in-chief of the armed forces chaired the meeting after taking office as head of the Kremlin on Tuesday for a fifth six-year term. In his speech he criticized Western revanchism.
During the Victory Day parade over Nazi Germany, the Russian president said, Vladimir Putinhas called prevent the outbreak of a global conflict amid rising military tensions with NATO.
“Russia will do everything possible to avoid a global confrontation. But at the same time we will not allow anyone to threaten us,” Putin said during his address to soldiers participating in the current military campaign in Ukraine and veterans of the Second World War. War gathered in Red Square.
Putin has assured Russia rejects claims of exclusivity “of any country or alliance”, with a clear reference to the US and NATO. Moreover, he has warned that Russia’s strategic forces are “always” combat ready.
Putin has once again admitted that Russia is in a situation “difficult period” of its history and that the fate of the country depends on victory on the Ukrainian battlefield. “The fate of the country, its future, depends on each of you,” he told the soldiers who formed up in front of the Kremlin walls.
Moreover, he has accused “Western elites” of betting on “revanchism” and justifying “the current followers of the Nazis” in Ukraine and other countries.
According to the Russian leader, all this is part of a Western policy incite conflict regional, hostility between peoples and religions, and the containment of new independent centers of development.
Putin has denounced the US efforts “neocolonialists” of ‘distorting’ the truth about World War II by dismantling monuments to Soviet soldiers and placing Hitler’s ‘traitors and accomplices’ on a pedestal.
However, he emphasized that Russia has never underestimated the importance of the role of the “second front”, that is, of the Western allies in the defeat of Nazism, also keeping in mind China’s struggle against Japanese imperialism.
Putin received his nine foreign guests at the Kremlin, to whom he assured that Russia will cooperate with countries that respect international law and an “indivisible” security system.
Putin has also benefited from the Belarusian leader’s presence in Moscow, Alexander Lukashenko, to announce that that country will participate in the current tactical nuclear weapons exercises near Ukraine. “Given the fact that non-strategic nuclear weapons are being deployed on the territory of Belarus, on this occasion we proposed to our friends and allies (…) to participate in one of the phases of these exercises. The corresponding orders have already been issued to the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff,” he stated.
In fact, the Belarusian armed forces have already started one this Tuesday surprise inspection of its nuclear weapons with the participation of Iskander systems and a squadron of Su-25 aircraft, which caused alarm in Kiev.
Putin on Monday ordered the start of these missile maneuvers in the Southern Military District, which also includes the four Ukrainian regions annexed by Moscow in 2022 (Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia).
Source: EITB
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