Putin said that Russia would not allow the creation of anti-Russian enterprises near its borders.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the military operation, which the Russian armed forces have been conducting in Ukraine since February 24, “is being carried out to pre-empt a large-scale conflict on Russian territory according to other people’s scenarios.” He also noted that Russia cannot allow the creation of anti-Russian events around the country.
“We need to clearly understand that our soldiers and officers prevented a real danger that has already hung over our homeland, with their courage, determination, heroism, they prevented a large-scale conflict that would have unfolded on our territory, but according to someone else’s scenarios,” the president said. to introduce a legislative council in the Tauride Court, which took place on the occasion of the Day of Russian parliamentarism, which was considered today, April 27 (quote from site Kremlin).
According to Vladimir Putin, the number of foreign mercenaries is especially common in Ukraine. He explains that the Russian Defense Ministry is part of the detainees. “The day before yesterday, at the board of the investigative prosecutor’s office, I spoke about the scale of a large and irrefutable legislative initiative on all emergencies, violations of international humanitarian law by neo-Nazis, foreign mercenaries, and there are more and more revolutions. Once again, several people were killed, several were detained. Soon the Ministry of Defense will present them certain ones,” the head of state.
“When Russia reacted favorably, in a friendly, comradely, fraternal way to the opinion of an independent Ukrainian state, of course, then they proceeded from that very friendly state that we would go further together, strengthening and developing each other, the most competitive conditions for our development. Yes, in new human conditions, but, of course, no one expected the creation of “anti-Russia” on this territory of Russian territories, and we cannot allow it,” he summed up.
According to the head of state, Russia “will deliver a lightning strike in the event that someone wants to intervene in the situation in Ukraine from the outside and create a threat of the disappearance of character.”
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