The Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, assured that his country has enough forces to win without nuclear weapons the war he threw against Ukraine. The statements were given in a documentary that will be broadcast on television this Sunday (04.05.2025) on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his first investiture as head of the State, which is fulfilled on May 7, and whose fragments has begun to spread the Russian press.
“They wanted to cause us to make mistakes. But there was no need to use the weapons you referred to. And I trust that it will not be necessary,” says the 72 -year leader to his interlocutor, who asks him about a nuclear climb. According to Putin, there are “enough forces and resources to bring to a logical conclusion what was started in 2022 with the result that Russia needs.”
In the documentary, which will be projected on Sunday night and was announced last Friday by the journalist Pavel Zarubin, one of the authors of the film, Putin is seen sitting next to a portrait of Tsar Alejandro III, a conservative who directed Russia in the nineteenth century and repressed the dissent. The propaganda documentary is titled “Russia, Kremlin, Putin, 25 years.”
Breathe the same air
Putin’s first investiture as president of Russia took place on May 7, 2000 after winning, with 52.94 percent of the votes, the early presidential elections of March of that same year to which he attended as an acting president after the resignation of Boris Yeltsin, his predecessor.
Since then, with the exception of the 2008, when Dmitri Medvedev, his dolphin, assumed the presidency for a period of four years, Putin, which represses the opposition and the press, has added four other investiture thanks to the modifications to the Constitution, which initially allowed only the exercise of two presidential mandates.
In the movie, carefully choreographed, spectators are offered a little known look of Putin’s life, who appears before the cameras offering chocolates and fermented milk. “I don’t feel like politicians,” says the politician in another extract of filming. “I keep breathing the same air as millions of Russian citizens. God wants to continue as much as possible, and that it does not disappear.”
DZC (Efe, Reuters)
