China News Agency, Moscow, July 7 (Tian Bing and Liu Jingyao) Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the leaders of the State Duma (lower house of parliament) and leaders of various parties at the Kremlin on the 7th, saying that the "Western collective" led by the United States is Ukraine. The direct instigators of the conflict are responsible for what is happening today.
According to the Kremlin website, Putin said that the "Western collective" led by the United States has been extremely aggressive towards Russia for decades.
Russian proposals for an equal security system in Europe were rejected, joint work on missile defense was rejected, and warnings that NATO expansion, especially at the expense of the former Soviet republics, was unacceptable were ignored, and even Russia's proposal to join NATO was clearly absurd in the eyes of NATO members.
"Because they don't need a country like Russia at all".
Putin said the "Western collective" was the direct instigator of the conflict in Ukraine and the culprit behind what happened today.
"The West wants to provoke a conflict to enter a new stage of the struggle against Russia, a new stage of containing Russia, and obviously they have succeeded to a certain extent. The war has been waged, and sanctions against Russia have followed."
Putin stressed that the West "should realize that as soon as the special military operation starts, they have failed, because it means the beginning of the total collapse of the American-style world order." The beginning of a true transition to a multipolar world, "the process cannot be stopped".
The course of history is unstoppable, and attempts by the "Western collective" to impose its world order on the world are doomed to failure.
Putin said that the West wants to defeat Russia on the battlefield and wants to "fight to the last Ukrainian" with Russia, which is undoubtedly a tragedy for the Ukrainian people, "but it seems that everything is moving in this direction. But everyone It should be known that, in general, we have not 'realized'." Putin emphasized that Russia does not refuse peace talks, "but those who refuse to negotiate should know that the longer the negotiation process is delayed, the more difficult the peace talks will be." (End)