According to the Kremlin dictator, the Russian Federation is “trying to end this war.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has made many statements about the war against Ukraine. The Kremlin dictator tried to justify the actions of his state and called the territories of our state Russian.

Putin distinguished himself with a fresh portion of statements during a meeting with veterans of the Second World War. The main topic of the speech of the President of the Russian Federation was the war in Ukraine. The dictator said: “Everything we are doing today, including the ‘special military operation’, is, as I have said many times, an attempt to stop this war. That is the point of our ‘operation’: to protect our people who there These are our historical territories, as I already said after the collapse of the Soviet Union, I will not give assessments now, this is not the place and time, but at least Russia has come to terms with this event. , we could not help but react to what began to happen there after ” coup d’état”.

Separately, Putin spoke about Donbas. According to him, Russia “tried to come to an agreement for a long time”, but it was allegedly “led by the nose”. And this, as the dictator said, “happens not for the first time.”

Putin did not pass the topic of the Second World War. He stated that representatives of many European states committed crimes on the Leningrad front. But earlier, Russia allegedly kept quiet about it so as not to spoil relations with other states.

Putin also said that at one of the UN votes for a document condemning the heroism of Nazism, 50 countries spoke against it. As usual, the Russian president did not provide any evidence to support his words.

Putin’s speech on January 18: what is known

Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov announced on January 17 that Putin will deliver a speech in St. Petersburg on January 18 in honor of the 80th anniversary of the breakthrough of the Nazi blockade of Leningrad.

As analysts of the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported, Putin likes symbolic dates, and military bloggers from the Russian Federation noted that the Kremlin dictator will announce either mobilization or an official war against Ukraine today.

In Moscow, they are already preparing for protests against the background of a new wave of conscription into the occupying army. The number of patrols on the streets of the Russian capital has increased.