2024-06-07 10:52:37
Russian chief Vladimir Putin hardly ever offers interviews to Western journalists. In latest months, for instance, he has spoken solely with the American conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, who’s favorably disposed to him. On Wednesday night, nevertheless, he unusually invited a number of European and American correspondents, who’re nonetheless in Russia, to St. Petersburg.
Within the debate, he alternated between threatening and asserting that the West is mendacity about Russia and its intentions. He repeated his earlier assertion that he had no intention of attacking any NATO member nation. Equally, he spoke earlier than February 2022 that he wouldn’t assault Ukraine and that warnings of warfare have been alarmist fabrications by Individuals and Europeans.
“You declare that Russia desires to assault NATO. Are you loopy? Are you as silly as this desk? Who ever considered such stupidity? I am telling you it is nonsense, merely nonsense,” the seventy-one-year-old politician raged within the dialogue. He added that Russia has no imperial ambitions, however didn’t remark or clarify why Russia is occupying japanese Ukraine.
This time, he was extraordinarily aggressive in direction of Germany. He talked about the truth that the “Russian individuals” had lengthy regarded the Germans as buddies, however the coverage of the federal government in Berlin had destroyed every little thing. “When the primary German tanks appeared in Ukraine, it induced an moral and ethical shock in Russia. Now, when there’s speak of German missiles touchdown on Russian territory, this in fact means the entire destruction of Russian-German relations,” Putin identified.
On Thursday morning, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared that Kiev has the proper to make use of Western weapons to assault Russian territory in self-defense. To this point, nevertheless, it nonetheless refuses to supply Kiev with the German long-range Taurus missiles, which have an important harmful energy and a variety of as much as 500 kilometers from the launch web site. Scholz claims that their supply would imply that they must be operated by German personnel in Ukraine and that he doesn’t want to contain Germany immediately within the warfare.
The Russian president additionally warned reporters in St. Petersburg that the West shouldn’t underestimate Russia’s will and readiness to make use of nuclear weapons. “For some cause, within the West they assume that we are going to by no means deploy nuclear weapons. However we now have a nuclear doctrine, and it states that if somebody threatens our sovereignty and territorial integrity, we are able to think about using any arsenal at our disposal,” Putin mentioned.
Threats of nuclear strikes on Nice Britain, Poland or Germany are sometimes mentioned on Russian state tv or within the packages of Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov. The Deputy Chairman of the Safety Council of the Russian Federation and former President Dmitry Medvedev additionally threatens complete warfare towards NATO and the West on social networks.
A member of the Russian State Duma, Andrei Gurulyov, referred to as on the Kremlin to strike first with nuclear weapons on tv this week. “I’m certain that our assault on Poland or the Baltics won’t provoke any response from america, France or Britain,” mentioned the politician.
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