Vladimir Putin today warned his enemies in the West they will face ‘consequences’ if they ‘worsen the situation’ in Ukraine, as the Russian strongman threatened to create endless ‘waves of migrants’ in Europe of women!
Putin, speaking in front of dozens of rockets at the Vostochny space launch facility in Russia’s Far East, insisted that his faltering invasion of Ukraine would prevail as he warned of world starvation as a result of Western sanctions against Moscow.
The Russian President claimed Russia’s economy and financial system withstood the blow from what he called the Western sanctions ‘blitz’ and insisted the move would backfire by driving up prices for essentials such as fertiliser, leading to food shortages and increased migration to the West.
Despite Putin’s faltering invasion, which saw Russian troops retreat from Ukrainian cities and instead focus on the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, the leader said his war effort is going to plan as he vowed Russia would triumph in all of its ‘noble’ war aims.
Putin said that ‘common sense should prevail’ and added that the West should ‘come back to reason and make well-balanced decisions without losing its face.’
He argued that new Western restrictions on high-tech exports will encourage Russia to move faster to develop new technologies, opening a ‘new window of opportunities.’
Putin also claimed on Tuesday that the images and footage of dead bodies strewn across the Ukrainian town of Bucha were fake, parroting the same lines his spokesman gave earlier this week. He compared the accusations to those concerning the use of chemical weapons by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. ‘It’s the same kind of fake in Bucha,’ Putin said.
Lukashenko wildly accused Britain of staging the atrocities at Bucha by bringing in dead bodies from across Ukraine – not Russian soldiers who wreaked havoc on Ukrainian towns and cities as they retreated.
The Belarusian dictator claimed that a show of Russian cruelty was needed to maintain the West’s justification for sanctions against Moscow.
‘We’ve discussed the psychological special operation which was conducted by the English,’ said Lukashenko of his talks with Putin. ‘If any of you need addresses, details, car plate numbers, brands of cars with which [they] arrived in Bucha and how they did it, the FSB [secret service] of Russia can provide these materials.’
Putin meanwhile claimed Ukraine had deviated from the agreements made at a peace conference in Istanbul, and that talks are in a ‘dead end’.
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Putin’s comments come as a video emerged purporting to show Russian heavy weapons including missile systems being moved towards the border with Finland, hours after the Kremlin warned its northern neighbour against joining NATO.
An unconfirmed video uploaded last night appears to show two Russian coastal defence missile systems moving along a road on the Russian side of the border that leads to Helsinki.
The missile systems, which were seen driving past a sign to the Finnish capital, are thought to be the K-300P Bastion-P mobile coastal defence system, designed to take out surface ships up to and including aircraft carrier battle groups.
The Russian deployment comes as Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said she expects her government ‘will end the discussion before midsummer’ on whether to apply for NATO membership.
Recent opinions polls by a Finnish market research company put 84% of Finns as viewing Russia as a ‘significant military threat’, up by 25% on last year.
In response, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov euphemistically warned the move would ‘not improve’ the security situation in Europe, and Moscow lawmaker Vladimir Dzhabarov added more bluntly it would mean ‘the destruction of the country’.
‘We have repeatedly said that the alliance remains a tool geared towards confrontation and its further expansion will not bring stability to the European continent,’ Peskov said.
Meanwhile in a show of Russian strength today, Vladimir Putin took his ‘nuclear football’ to a space port alongside Lukashenko.
Yesterday NATO announced two multinational naval groups of sixteen ships led by the Royal Netherlands Navy will be patrolling the Baltic Sea coasts of members such as Poland and Estonia to ‘maintain a credible and capable defensive capability’.
Finland, along with neighbouring Sweden, has historically avoided NATO membership, despite close alignment with the West, in an effort not to provoke Russia.
But the Scandinavian country shares a 830 mile long border with Russia and has been unnerved by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, having been invaded once before by the Soviet Union in 1939.
Meanwhile, Sweden’s ruling party formally began debating the possibility of launching a bid for membership yesterday, a move which would signal a complete role reversal in policy for the Scandinavian kingdom that has remained militarily neutral for decades.
Party secretary Tobias Baudin told local media that the NATO review should be complete within the next few months.
‘When Russia invaded Ukraine, Sweden’s security position changed fundamentally,’ the party said in a statement.
In Sweden, the ruling centre-left Social Democrats have historically opposed NATO membership but the more than six-week conflict in Ukraine has reignited debate in the Scandinavian kingdom.
A policy reversal for the party, which ruled for an uninterrupted 40 years between the 1930s and 1970s, would be historic and could pave the way for Sweden to apply to join NATO.
The party, led by Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, are said to have begun discussing the possibility of joining NATO today, with the issue expected to be a central to parliamentary elections scheduled for September 11.
Sweden is officially non-aligned militarily, although it is a NATO partner and abandoned its position of strict neutrality after the end of the Cold War.
Having initially stressed that non-alignment had ‘served Sweden’s interests well,’ Andersson recently conceded that she was ready to discuss the policy and in late March said she ‘did not rule out’ a bid to join NATO.
Mr Peskov made clear that Russia would have to ‘rebalance the situation’ with its own measures were Sweden and Finland to join Nato.
The spiral of escalation has seen both countries increase their defence spending, with Helsinki announcing plans to spend £11 on drones and Stockholm adding another £243 million to their military budget.
Adding to the fears, Putin warned the West today that Russia will never again depend on them and he had no doubts about his brutal invasion of Ukraine.
‘Its goals are absolutely clear and noble,’ Putin said. ‘It’s clear that we didn’t have a choice. It was the right decision.’
He said that Russians’ unity will only grow stronger in the face of Western sanctions and it will be the West that will face instability.
Putin said the West mistakenly expected its sanctions to undermine Russia’s stability, adding ‘the Russian people always strengthen their unity in a difficult situation.’
He insisted that it will be the West that will be shaken by growing instability, fueled by public dismay over galloping inflation. The Russian leader also lashed out at European leaders, describing them as Washington’s stooges and saying that they are conducting policies harmful to their nations.
Meanwhile, Putin said his faltering invasion is going to plan and claimed it is not moving faster because Russia wants to minimise losses.
He said the ‘military operation will continue until its full completion and the fulfillment of the tasks that have been set.’
Putin claimed that Ukraine backtracked on proposals it made during talks with Russian negotiators in Istanbul, resulting in a deadlock in talks and leaving Moscow no other choice but to press on with its offensive.
At a space port in eastern Russia, he cited the success of the Soviet space programme as evidence that the country could achieve spectacular leaps forward in tough conditions.
Sixty one years to the day since the Soviet Union’s Yuri Gagarin blasted off into the history books by becoming the first man in space, Putin travelled to the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East, 3,450 miles east of Moscow.
‘The sanctions were total, the isolation was complete but the Soviet Union was still first in space,’ Putin said, according to Russian state television.
‘We don’t intend to be isolated,’ Putin said. ‘It is impossible to severely isolate anyone in the modern world – especially such a vast country as Russia.’
Russia’s Cold War space successes such as Gagarin’s flight and the 1957 launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite from earth, have a particular pertinence for Russia: both events shocked the United States.
The launch of Sputnik 1 prompted the United States to create NASA in a bid to catch up with Moscow.
Putin says the ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine is necessary because the United States was using Ukraine to threaten Russia – including via the NATO military alliance – and that Moscow had to defend Russian-speaking people in Ukraine from persecution.
As Putin dismissed the atrocities in Bucha as ‘fake’ Ukrainian prosecutors today expanded their war crimes investigations in northeastern suburbs of Kyiv after Russian forces withdrew.
Reports of killings of civilians have primarily focused so far on the northwestern suburbs such as Bucha, but the Prosecutor-General’s Office said Tuesday it was also looking into events in the Brovary district, which lies to the northeast.
Russian troops advanced into that area last month before retreating to focus on fighting in eastern Ukraine.
The Prosecutor-General’s Office said the bodies of six civilians had been found with gunshot wounds in a basement in the village of Shevchenkove and that Russian forces were believed to be responsible.
Prosecutors are also investigating an incident in which they allege Russian forces fired on a convoy of civilians trying to leave by car from the village of Peremoha in the Brovary district, killing four people including a 13-year-old boy. In another incident near Bucha, five people were killed, including two children, when a car was fired upon, prosecutors said.
In Ukraine, Russian forces are continuing to pull out of Belarus to support operations in the east as Putin focuses his invasion on the Donbas region where Russian-allied separatists have claimed independence.
‘Fighting in eastern Ukraine will intensify over the next two to three weeks as Russia continues to refocus its efforts there,’ the UK Ministry of Defence said today in its latest intelligence briefing.
‘Russian attacks remain focused on Ukrainian positions near Donetsk and Luhansk with further fighting around Kherson and Mykolaiv and a renewed push toward Kramatorsk.’
U.S. officials also point to further signs Russia’s military is gearing up for a major offensive in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, switching its focus after Russian forces failed in their initial drive to capture Kyiv.
Donbas has been torn by fighting between Russian-allied separatists and Ukrainian forces since 2014, and Russia has recognised the separatists’ claims of independence.
Military strategists say Russian leaders appear to hope local support, logistics and terrain in Donbas favour Russia’s larger and better-armed military, potentially allowing Russian troops to gain more territory and weaken Ukraine’s fighting forces.
These countries don’t seem to get it, they aren’t being attacked for just “tra la la la la, minding their own business”…… they are getting attacked for trying to join NATO and moving NATO weaponry and possibly nuclear weapons too as close to Russia as possible. It is only normal that Russia is getting infuriated.
Wouldn’t USA get infuriated if Russia wanted to move nukes to Canada and Mexico and surround it with nukes? All with the approval of Canada and Mexico of course. Of course, neither of the 2 would EVER leave USA and join Russia alliance but ASSUMING, HYPOTHETICALLY, wouldn’t the US attack them? Of course they would, Cuba was much further away than Mexico and yet USA got very angry and was ready to attack Cuba and even start World War 3.
So our suggestion to Finland? Just mind your own business, forget about NATO, at least for now while Putin is in charge and all will be well.
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