The European Commission on Thursday compared Russian President Vladimir Putin to former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, holding him responsible for “all the consequences” of the war in Ukraine after Putin warned the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to send troops. to Ukraine, EFE, AFP and Agerpres press agencies report.

The committee’s foreign affairs spokesman, Peter Stano, said of Putin’s address to the Russian parliament on Thursday, in which he warned NATO and assured that the Russian military has already received the first intercontinental ballistic missiles “Sarmat”, each capable of carrying 10-15 guided nuclear warheads. , “can be summed up very briefly like this”.

“Basically, this is the disappointment of the nation; the nation lives under Stalinist repression, the army is in a catastrophic state, the economy is in ruins, the country is completely destroyed, and his attempts to destroy Ukraine have so far been nothing but a failure,” said Peter Stano during the daily press conference at the European Commission.

Peter Stano specified that the speech should be understood in the context of the upcoming presidential elections in Russia, scheduled for March, and “Putin’s efforts to be re-elected”, as well as attempts to remove the blame for the war from Ukraine.

“He continues to disappoint his own nation and tries to continue to disappoint the international community, if anyone is still listening to him. He started a war against Ukraine, he is responsible for all the consequences internally in Russia, regionally in Ukraine, but also on the world stage,” Stano emphasized.

And “all these threats with nuclear weapons are absolutely unacceptable and inappropriate,” the quoted spokesman said.

Putin warned NATO that the consequences of the deployment of allied troops in Ukraine would be “tragic”, dismissing as “absurd” accusations that Moscow is considering an attack on Europe.

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“They (Westerners) talked about the possibility of sending Western military contingents to Ukraine (…) But the consequences of these interventions would actually be much more tragic,” the Russian president said during a speech at Gostiny dvor. Congress, located near Red Square in Moscow.

“They must understand that we also have weapons capable of hitting targets on their territory. Everything they are inventing now, in addition to what scares the whole world, is a real threat of conflict with the use of nuclear weapons, and therefore the destruction of civilization,” – continued the Russian president.

Putin announced on Thursday that Russia had completed plans to develop all the latest missiles and weapons announced by the Kremlin in 2018, some of which have already been delivered to the Russian armed forces and even used in the war in Ukraine.

“Work continues on a number of very new weapons systems. We will learn about the new achievements of our scientists and gunsmiths later,” he emphasized in a speech that lasted two hours and six minutes and was shown in cinemas in various regions of Russia as part of his election campaign.

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