Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed workers at an aircraft factory in Russia on Tuesday, saying that “the very existence of the Russian state is at stake” in Ukraine, Reuters reported.

The head of the Kremlin said this during a visit to the aircraft factory in Buryatia, located approximately 4,400 kilometers from Moscow.

Putin renewed his accusations that the West seeks to divide Russia and is using Ukraine as an instrument of war against Moscow in order to inflict a “strategic defeat” on it.

• “For us, this is not a geopolitical task, but a task of survival of Russian statehood, creation of conditions for the future development of the country and our children,” said the President of the Russian Federation.

“It didn’t happen”

In response to a question, Vladimir Putin said that by imposing sanctions after the invasion of Ukraine, the “enemy” expected Russian factories to close, the financial system to collapse, unemployment to rise, people to take to the streets, and Moscow to “collapse.” collapse”.

“This did not happen. For many of us, and even more so for Western countries, it turned out that the fundamental foundations of Russia’s stability are much stronger than anyone thought,” the Russian president said, quoted by Reuters.

Also on Tuesday, Vladimir Putin addressed the participants of the first congress of the International Russophile Movement, which is being held in Moscow.

• “We highly appreciate your steadfast determination to fight the Russophobic campaign, your desire to develop mutually beneficial humanitarian dialogue and cooperation,” Putin’s telegram published by the Kremlin reads.

After invading Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin repeatedly accused the West of wanting to “destroy” Russia.

A year after the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin addressed the assembled chambers of the Federal Assembly in a hallucinatory speech in which he argued that the West had “started the conflict” and Russia must “use force to stop it.” He stated that the level of training of the nuclear forces is 91%, demanding that all other forces of the army reach this level of training. “We have better equipment than in the West, it needs to be mass-produced,” the Russian president shouted.

Vladimir Putin then spoke for nearly two hours, during which he renewed his attacks on Ukraine and the West, claiming that the West had started the conflict, that Moscow was using force to defend itself, that it was protecting people’s lives – not fighting Ukrainians who were “hostages” to the West and that Russia’s “responsibility” is “the liquidation of the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv.”

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