Russian President Vladimir Putin accused NATO of participating in the conflict in Ukraine by supplying weapons to forces in Kyiv in an interview broadcast Sunday and quoted by AFP.

“They send weapons worth tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine. This is really participation,” Putin said in an interview with the Russia-1 TV channel.

“This means that they participate, albeit indirectly, in the crimes of the Kyiv regime,” the president of the Russian Federation also said.

According to him, Western countries have “one goal: to destroy the former Soviet Union and its main part – the Russian Federation.”

“Only then will we possibly be accepted into the so-called family of civilized nations, but separately, each separately,” he added, speaking on the sidelines of a patriotic concert last Thursday, on the eve of the first anniversary of liberation. Russia’s attack on Ukraine.

During the interview, the Russian president also repeated his call for the creation of a multipolar world.

“What are we up against? Against the fact that this new world, which is being born, is being built only in the interests of one country – the USA. Now that their attempts to reconfigure the world after the collapse of the Soviet Union have led to this situation, we are forced to respond,” he said.