“We highly appreciate the fact that our country has many allies, partners, like-minded people on different continents.
These are states that do not bend before the so-called hegemon, their leaders show a real masculine character and do not bend.
They choose a sovereign, independent path of development,” Putin said.
He noted that Russia stands for the broad and comprehensive development of military-technical cooperation in the conditions of the formation of a multipolar world.
Earlier, Putin said that multipolarity in the world is inevitable.
Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov noted that the origins of the current crisis lie in the decline of the American-centric model of the world order.