“The noble goal of protecting the Donbass will be achieved. This is what will happen and there is no doubt, the objectives are perfectly clear and they are noble ”.
Vladimir Putin said it bluntly and with great confidence, speaking to space industry workers at the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
The Russian president visited the Cosmodrome together with the Belarusian president Lukashenko, then during the press conference he spoke about what he calls a "special operation" in Ukraine, defining for now the negotiations "closed", pushed into a "dead end" by the government Ukrainian.
The "main" goal, he said, "is to help the people of Donbass, which we recognized, and we had to do so because the authorities in Kiev, encouraged by the West, refused to implement the Minsk agreements for a peaceful resolution of the problems of the Donbass ".
What is happening in Ukraine is a "tragedy", but "we had no choice", Putin added, stating that "what we are doing is helping people on the one hand and working for the security of Russia on the other." the clash with the "anti-Russian forces raised in Ukraine", which has now become "inevitable, was only a matter of time".
All the tactics of the operation were decided on the basis of the need for "vigorous" action in the Donbass, he explained, saying that "operations in some regions of Ukraine pursued the objective of blocking enemy forces, carrying out an attack , destroy military infrastructure and create the conditions for more vigorous action in the Donbass ". The aim is to "provide assistance to people in the Donbass who feel their inseparable links with Russia and who have been exposed to genocide for eight years".
A military operation that "proceeds according to plan", while the negotiations were pushed into a "dead end" by Kiev, which "created difficulties in bringing them to an acceptable level". The tsar accuses the Ukrainian government of not respecting the draft agreement reached during the negotiations in Istanbul.
“RUSSIA ISOLATION? IMPOSSIBLE ”- From the Bucha massacres bluntly branded as a“ fake ”to the international situation, Vladimir Putin is speaking in all directions while in Ukraine we are on the 48th day of the war.
International isolation? “It is impossible to isolate Russia. We are ready to cooperate with all partners who wish and we have no intention of closing ourselves. In the modern world it is totally impossible to strictly isolate anyone, even more so a country as large as Russia. So we will work with partners who want to interact ”.
Putin speaks of a Europe "humiliated by the US", of a West that "does not understand that difficulties only increase the unity of our people" and foresees a black period for Western governments.
"When people collide over gasoline prices and unprecedented inflation, this will translate into domestic political problems for Westerners, while they wanted it to translate into domestic political problems for Russia. always quarries ".
(Unioneonline / L)