SAINT PETERSBURG: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday warned that Western arms deliveries to Ukraine had been “a really harmful step“, particularly if donors are “controlling” use of the weapons.
“Delivering arms to a warzone is at all times unhealthy. Much more so if those that are delivering should not simply delivering weapons but in addition controlling them. It is a very critical and really harmful step,” Putin advised reporters.
A number of nations, together with Germany and america, have in latest weeks given the inexperienced mild for Ukraine to make use of Western-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russia in response to a brand new offensive launched by Moscow in northeast Ukraine final month.
Putin singled out Germany, saying that when the primary German-supplied tanks “appeared on Ukrainian soil, it provoked a ethical and moral shock in Russia” due to the legacy of World Warfare II.
Referring to German authorities, he stated: “Once they say that there can be extra missiles which is able to hit targets on Russian territory, this definitively destroys Russian-German relations.”
Putin repeated that his nation “didn’t begin the conflict in opposition to Ukraine”, as an alternative blaming a pro-Western revolution in 2014 which was adopted by Russia’s annexation of Crimea and a Moscow-backed separatist insurrection within the east of the nation.
“Everybody thinks that Russia began the conflict in Ukraine. I want to emphasise that no one within the West, in Europe, needs to recollect how this tragedy began,” Putin stated.
“Delivering arms to a warzone is at all times unhealthy. Much more so if those that are delivering should not simply delivering weapons but in addition controlling them. It is a very critical and really harmful step,” Putin advised reporters.
A number of nations, together with Germany and america, have in latest weeks given the inexperienced mild for Ukraine to make use of Western-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russia in response to a brand new offensive launched by Moscow in northeast Ukraine final month.
Putin singled out Germany, saying that when the primary German-supplied tanks “appeared on Ukrainian soil, it provoked a ethical and moral shock in Russia” due to the legacy of World Warfare II.
Referring to German authorities, he stated: “Once they say that there can be extra missiles which is able to hit targets on Russian territory, this definitively destroys Russian-German relations.”
Putin repeated that his nation “didn’t begin the conflict in opposition to Ukraine”, as an alternative blaming a pro-Western revolution in 2014 which was adopted by Russia’s annexation of Crimea and a Moscow-backed separatist insurrection within the east of the nation.
“Everybody thinks that Russia began the conflict in Ukraine. I want to emphasise that no one within the West, in Europe, needs to recollect how this tragedy began,” Putin stated.
