Reuters
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The president of Russia Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that Russia had enough strength and resources to bring war in Ukraine to its logical conclusion, although it expected that the use of nuclear weapons was not necessary.
Putin ordered the deployment of thousands of Russian soldiers in Ukraine in February 2022, which triggered the greatest land conflict in Europe since World War II and the greatest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the apogee of the cold war.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers have died or resulting injured, and the president of the USA, Donald Trump, has reiterated his desire to end the “blood bath” that his administration describes as an indirect war between the United States and Russia.
In a state television film about the fourth century of Putin as a supreme leader of Russia, entitled “Russia, Kremlin, Putin, 25 years,” a journalist asked Putin about the risk of a nuclear climb derived from the war in Ukraine.
“They wanted to cause us to make mistakes,” Putin said, speaking with a portrait of Tsar Alejandro III, a conservative of the nineteenth century who repressed the dissent. “There has been no need to use those weapons … and I hope they are not necessary.”
“We have enough strength and means to carry what began in 2022 to a logical conclusion with the result that Russia demands.”
Trump has been pointing out his frustration for the failure of Moscow and Kyiev to reach an agreement to end the war, although the Kremlin has affirmed that the conflict is so complex that it makes it difficult to make the rapid progress that Washington wants.
The former US president Joe Biden, the leaders of Western Europe and Ukraine described the invasion of a territorial appropriation of imperial style and repeatedly promised defeating the Russian forces, who control approximately one fifth of Ukraine.
Putin describes war as a turning point in Moscow’s relations with the West, which, according to him, humiliated Russia after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 by expanding NATO and invading what he considers the sphere of influence of Moscow. Trump has warned that the conflict could lead to a third World War. The former director of the CIA, William Burns, said at the end of 2022 that there is a real risk of Russia using nuclear weapons against Ukraine, a statement denied by Moscow.
Putin, exhausting Colonel of the KGB, whom Boris Yeltsin, sick, handed him the presidency on the last day of 1999, is the leader of the Kremlin with more years in office from Josef Stalin, who ruled for 29 years until his death in 1953.
Russian dissidents – most of them in prison or abroad – come to Putin as a dictator who has built a fragile personal government system based on adulation and corruption, which is taking Russia to the decline and instability.
His supporters present to Putin, who, according to Russian surveys, has approval rates greater than 85%, as a Savior who faced an arrogant West and ended the chaos that accompanied the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991.
In the state television film, carefully choreographed that offered viewers a unusual look at the notoriously reserved life of Russian president, Putin appeared offering chocolates and a drink of Russian fermented milk to Pavel Zarubin, an important correspondent of the Kremlin, in his private cuisine.
Putin said he knelt for the first time to pray during the theater crisis of the Northeast of Moscow in 2002, when checking militants took more than 900 people hostage. More than 130 hostages were killed.
“I don’t feel like any politician,” Putin said about his 25 years in power as president and prime minister.
“I keep breathing the same air as millions of Russian citizens. It is very important. I hope it continues as long as possible. And that does not disappear.”
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