Russia-Ukraine War: On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to continue Russia’s year-long war in Ukraine, accusing the US-led NATO alliance of fanning the flames of the conflict in the mistaken belief that it could defeat Russia.
Putin told Russia’s political and military elite, flanked by four Russian tricolour flags on either side of him, that Russia would “carefully and consistently resolve the tasks before us.”
Putin stated that Russia had done everything possible to avoid war, but that Western-backed Ukraine was planning an attack on Crimea.
We were doing everything possible to solve this problem peacefully, negotiating a peaceful way out of this difficult conflict, but behind our backs, a very different scenario was being prepared: Russian President Vladimir Putin pic.twitter.com/ZY8p1nEf84
— ANI (@ANI) February 21, 2023
He also claimed that the West was “completely to blame” for the Ukraine crisis. “The responsibility for escalating the Ukrainian conflict, for the number of victims… lies entirely with Western elites,” Putin told Russia’s top officials and political elites.
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Putin’s remarks come a day after US Vice President Joe Biden visited Kyiv under tight security. Before the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion, President Trump promised Ukraine $500 million in new arms and “unwavering” American support.
“It is them who are culpable for the war, we are using force to stop it”
Vladimir Putin blames the West and Ukraine for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine https://t.co/038IBrjpQq pic.twitter.com/cmrFgzUEgS
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) February 21, 2023
With nearly one year to the day he ordered an armed invasion in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed the West for “unleashing the war”, while saying that Moscow “used force to contain it”.
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Putin told Russia’s political and military elite in his state of the nation address to the Federal Assembly on Tuesday that Moscow would “carefully and consistently resolve the tasks before us” in Ukraine.
