Member of the European Parliament, Gian Omar, confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin is the biggest loser a year after the war he waged against Ukraine, explaining that this year revealed to the world the extent of the Russian regime's criminality, brutality, and willingness to commit massacres and war crimes that shame humanity, in addition to the military losses. And the economy suffered by Moscow and its army in Ukraine, according to Omar.
The German parliamentarian - of Syrian origins - showed pictures showing dead Ukrainian civilians who he said were killed by the Russian war machine and other pictures showing the extent of the destruction inflicted on Ukraine's cities, streets and infrastructure by the Russian forces, indicating at the same time that Putin failed in return to achieve victory over Ukraine, but rather He got involved in a war that he thought would take several weeks, and now it is entering its second year, after more than 140,000 Russian soldiers were killed, according to Omar.
In statements to the Opposite Direction program on 28/2/2023, he also referred to the large economic losses suffered by Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, as a result of the international sanctions imposed on it, as well as its political isolation imposed on it by the countries of the world, including those countries that were affiliated with it. .
On the other hand, the German parliamentarian spoke of an unprecedented popular and official European unity witnessed by the countries of the European continent, all of which have come to sense the Russian threat and Moscow's intention to control many European countries.
However, former Russian senator Ziad Essebsi rejected all these analyzes, and confirmed that Russia did not seek war in Ukraine, but it was imposed on it by American and European attempts to exploit Ukraine to harm Russia's sovereignty.
According to the former Russian senator, the West's exploitation of Ukraine to offend Russia began since 2014, when Washington began to interfere openly in Ukrainian internal affairs to impose its political vision on Kiev in a way that harms Russia, stressing that Moscow, despite this, did not interfere in internal Ukrainian affairs and did not seek to impose its will on the people. There is the one who overthrew his president, who was considered affiliated with Moscow.
As for the loser and winner in the war, he stressed that Europe is the biggest loser, and that the United States is the winning party so far, because it is working to exploit this war to bankrupt Europe economically, referring to the migration of many major global factories to the European market and heading to America since the outbreak of the war. It has more investment opportunities in America.
He referred to the European division regarding the sanctions imposed on Russia, where he talked about the positions of Hungary and Serbia, as well as the Italian reservation, and noted at the same time that Germany still imports Russian gas and oil, as well as most of its coal needs from Moscow.
Regarding Russia's international isolation, the former Russian official ridiculed these statements, stressing that Russia has strong and rooted interests with the countries of Asia and Africa, and said that interests determine relations between countries, and stressed that the war will end if America, not Kiev or Europe, decides to start negotiating. With Russia, because the one who commands and forbids on the other side is the United States, which moves only in what serves its interests.