As of: February 13, 2024, 11:47 a.m
By: Erkan Pehlivan
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A Russian state television presenter describes his own soldiers as “aggressors and extremely evil.”
They would take what was theirs.
Moscow – The war in Ukraine has been going on with undiminished severity for around two years.
The Kremlin continues to see the country as part of a historic Russia.
President Vladimir Putin also confirmed this when he invaded Ukraine in 2021.
“Russians and Ukrainians are one people – a single and whole”.
Russians are “aggressors and extremely evil”
A presenter on Russian state television has now taken up the line of argument - with a remarkable choice of words.
“The Russians always come back to get what belongs to them,” said Sergei Mardan in front of the cameras: the allegations are true.
“Yes, yes, you are right,” said Mardan: the Russians are “aggressors” and could be “cruel.”
“Russians feel no guilt,” he added.
Anton Gerashchenko, a former adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, translated and shared the excerpt on X (formerly Twitter).
In view of such statements, Ukraine needs Patriot missiles to protect its airspace and HIMARS missiles to repel Russia's army on the ground.
The head of the
Russia Today
(
RT
) channel, Margarita Simonjan, also recently commented again.
A “reconquest” would have a positive effect on Russia, as in the Chechen war, which ended in a Russian victory.
“During the Chechen wars, one could not imagine that in the future the Chechens would fight with weapons in their hands on the side of Russia and for Russia,” Simonyan said, apparently in an attempt to provide optimism.
Putin rules out defeat in Ukraine war
Putin seems certain of victory anyway.
The Russian president described a defeat in the Ukraine war as “impossible” in an interview with right-wing US presenter Tucker Carlson published last week.
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The provocations from Moscow against the West continue.
Russia has put Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas on a wanted list.
This emerges from a note that appeared on the Moscow Interior Ministry website on Tuesday (February 13).
Accordingly, Kallas is wanted in Russia for “a criminal matter” – no further details were given.
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Kallas is one of Putin's harshest critics.
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Trump questions support for European states in a war with Russia
There is concern in NATO that Russia could attack its allies in the Baltics or Poland if the USA were to fail as a protecting power.
The Kremlin boss had denied such plans in the interview with Carlson, but Putin has long been considered a notorious liar in the alliance.
The fears recently received new fodder indirectly.
Nine months before the US elections, former President Donald Trump questioned the assistance pact under which NATO members support each other in the event of an attack.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg reacted sharply to Trump's statements: "Any suggestion that allies are not defending themselves undermines our entire security," criticized the otherwise reserved Norwegian.
Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty of April 1949 states: “The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be deemed to be an attack against all of them.” (erpe)