Russian President
Vladimir Putin
warned this Thursday that the consequences of the deployment of allied troops in Ukraine would be "tragic", and stressed that Western powers must understand that Moscow
"also has weapons that can hit targets in its territories."
"They have begun to talk about the possibility of sending NATO military contingents to Ukraine, but we remember the fate of those who once sent troops to the territory of our country, but now the consequences for potential interventionists
will be much more tragic
," the president warned in his state of the nation speech, two weeks before the presidential elections.
In that sense, Putin stressed that Western powers must understand that Russia
"also has weapons that can hit targets in its territories."
And he warned: "Everything they invent at this moment, with which they terrify the world, all of this constitutes
a real threat of a conflict in which nuclear weapons are used
, which means the destruction of civilization."
Putin also accused the West of forgetting what war is and provoking "conflicts in Ukraine, the Middle East and other regions of the world."
"And they continue to lie. Now, without any shame, they claim that Russia supposedly intends to attack Europe. But we know well that this is simply nonsense," he said.
The Russian president assured that the West is trying to make the Russian Federation make the same mistake as the Soviet Union of becoming involved in an arms race, to which the USSR dedicated 13% of the Gross Domestic Product, when Moscow will allocate 6% to defense. 2024.
In this regard, he stressed that this "trick" will not succeed, since Moscow intends to develop the military-technical complex in order to strengthen the industrial, technological and scientific potential of the country.
Putin also described as "baseless" the accusations by the United States that Russia is preparing to deploy nuclear weapons in the cosmos.
However, he stressed that Russian strategic nuclear forces are
"in full combat readiness."
"Without a sovereign and strong Russia, a strong world order will not be possible," he said.
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