Could Russia attack a NATO country if it won the war in Ukraine? For Vladimir Putin, the hypothesis, feared by US President Joe Biden, is "nonsense".
The Moscow leader explained, in an interview on Rossiya-1 television, that with those accusations Biden "only intends to justify his policy because Russia has no interest in fighting NATO, neither geopolitical nor economic nor military".
The Russian president also said that he was "naive" in the first years of his mandate regarding the intentions of Western countries, which aimed at the "disintegration" of Russia as had happened with the USSR.
Putin then claimed that former US national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski had a plan to "divide Russia into five parts and exploit its resources".
As for the conflict in Ukraine and the future of Russia, Putin clarified: "Our nation cannot, like other countries, renounce its sovereignty and be someone's satellite in exchange for a few sausages."
(Unioneonline/lf)
