According to the president, the West is increasingly pressuring Russia to submit to it and become an obedient tool, or the West will destroy it and wipe it off the political map. But that “will never happen,” Putin insisted. “As long as nuclear weapons exist, there is always a danger of using them,” he warned.
“Dominion over the world is what the West puts at stake in its game. This game is dangerous, refusing the sovereignty of nations, their individuality and uniqueness,” said Putin.
He characterized Western politics as “bloody and dirty”. “He rejects the sovereignty of the state and the people, its individuality and uniqueness, he does not look at the interests of other countries in the slightest,” he commented. Any criticism of the West was later branded a “hand of the Kremlin”, which Putin said was “rambling”.
In his speech, Putin also used the phrase “blind of superiority” from a former Harvard lecture by Soviet and Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Russian-appointed authorities in the Ukrainian-occupied Zaporozhye region on Thursday ordered checks of local residents’ phones and announced the introduction of military censorship under Russian President Vladimir Putin’s martial law decree. “Starting today in the Zaporozhye region, law enforcement officers have started selective preventive checks of citizens’ mobile phones,” said Moscow-appointed official Vladimir Rogov
A new schedule of power cuts is planned to be implemented in and around Kyiv in the coming days after an Iranian-made Russian drone caused further damage to energy infrastructure in the Kyiv region overnight to today.the city government said.
The new schedule is meant to prevent uncontrolled power outages and will be stricter and longer than recently announced by Ukraine’s state-owned energy company, Ukrenergo. Residents of a Kyiv apartment building have started leaving small packets of snacks in the elevator to use in case people get stuck during a power outage.
“The new world order must be based on law and justice, must be free, independent and just. The world economy and trade must also become more fair and open.” said Putin. “I believe that dictatorships can only be faced with freedom of development of the state and society,” he said. According to the Russian president, it is also advisable to think about the structure of the United Nations, including the Security Council, which better express the diversity of the multipolar world region, including the growing influence of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
According to Putin, the United States has nothing to offer the world, and America’s neoliberal world order model is in crisis. “All of this, without exaggeration, is not a systemic crisis but even a doctrinal crisis of the neoliberal model of the American world order. They have no concept of creating positive developments, they have nothing to offer the world except to maintain their dominance.” said Putin.
“True democracy in a multipolar world mainly presupposes the possibility of every nation, every society and every civilization to choose its own path, its own social and political system. If the United States and the European Union countries have such rights, then of course Asian countries, Islamic countries, Persian Gulf monarchies and other continental countries also have such rights. Of course, our country, Russia, also has them, and no one will be able to dictate what kind of society and what principles we should build.” he stated.
“The historical period of Western dominance in world affairs is coming to an end. The unipolar world is becoming a thing of the past,” said Putin, emphasizing that Russia has demonstrated its prowess by successfully resisting Western sanctions and “stifling” access to critical technology.
According to the head of the Kremlin, only Russia can be the real guarantor of Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, which Russia also created, according to Putin. “The North Atlantic Alliance’s expansion into Ukraine is completely unacceptable to us, which everyone knows, but they just ignore it. They completely ignore our security interests.” Putin said, although the question of Ukraine’s entry into NATO was not on the agenda before the invasion. Ukraine only has a promise that the door of the alliance remains open to all interested parties and that no country – not even Russia – has a veto.
According to Putin’s version, at the end of last year, another Russian attempt to agree to NATO’s non-expansion failed, and the West “just sent Russia somewhere, and that’s it.” Russia’s interests were ignored, he stressed.
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