Ann Clere Legender, a spokesperson for the French Foreign Ministry, said Russian President Vladimir Putin, who saw the special operation in Ukraine as a fight against Western hegemony.
Speaking at a Valday Forum event, the Russian president said that NATO expansion is unacceptable for Russia and that the Kyiv (Ukrainian) regime has publicly renounced the Minsk agreements with the support of the West. He also emphasised that the West, and not Russia, is to blame for the current state of affairs in the world, including the Russian private military operation.
“What Vladimir Putin is trying to do is to return us to a situation in which we return to the logic of the military blocs. We want to avoid such a division of the world,” Legender said in her statement.
The Russian president said yesterday that NATO refused to consider Russia’s interests, and that Russia disagreed with the decision to enlarge NATO.
Moreover, Putin said earlier that all Russia’s attempts to enter into a dialogue with the West had been ignored on disturbing issues, including about strategic stability.
On February 24, Russia began a special military operation in Ukraine.
During an operation to “disarm and eliminate Nazism in Ukraine” and to bring all war criminals accountable for “bloody crimes against civilians” in Donbas to justice, President Vladimir Putin set the goal of “protecting the persons who were persecuted and subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.”
From Novosti.
Regarding Putin’s remarks regarding the conflict between Russia and the West, the French Foreign Ministry makes a statement.
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