“The so-called West, with its colonial habits, its habit of inciting national conflicts around the world, seeks not only to restrain our development - instead of Russia, they need a dependent, fading, dying space where they can do whatever they want.
In fact, they would like to do with Russia the same thing that they have done in many other regions of the world, including Ukraine.
Bring discord into our home and weaken us from within.
But they miscalculated,” he said.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin began his speech with a message to the Federal Assembly.
RT is broadcasting the message.