Russian President Vladimir Putin described as “total nonsense” the statements in the West that Russia, after Ukraine, is preparing to attack Europe, in a meeting last night with military pilots in the region of Tver, north of Moscow.
“What they say about us going to attack Europe after Ukraine is total nonsense, it is intimidation of its population, to get money from it,” said the head of the Kremlin, quoted this Thursday by Russian agencies.
“We have no aggressive intention,” says Putin
Vladimir Putin stated that “US satellites fear a big and strong Russia,” but he assured that they have no reason to do so. “We have no aggressive intention in relation to those countries,” he stressed.
He insisted that it is “total nonsense” to talk about the possibility of “an attack on other countries, on Poland, on the Baltic countries.”
The president added that they also “scare the Czechs,” to summarize that the statements about the Russian threat are “simple delusions.”
On the difference in expenses between NATO and Russia
Putin recalled that in 2022 the military spending of the United States, the leader of NATO, was 811 billion dollars, while that of Russia was 72 billion.
“Are we going to fight with NATO with that correlation? “It’s nonsense,” she said.
At the same time, he warned that the F-16 fighters that will be supplied to Ukraine will be considered “legitimate targets” regardless of where they operate from.
Putin thus responded to a pilot’s question about whether the Russian Air Force will destroy F-16s at NATO airfields if they are used from there by Ukraine.
Russia launched 28 drones and missiles against Ukraine
Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine continues. Russia launched 28 drones and four missiles against Ukraine tonight, in an attempt to destroy energy infrastructure in the south, especially in Odessa, Ukrainian authorities reported today.
Russian forces launched three Kh-22 cruise missiles and one Kh-31P anti-radar missile from the Black Sea and one S-300 guided missile from Donetsk, in addition to 28 Iranian Shahed suicide drones from the border region of Kursk and Crimea, the ministry said. Air Force.
BY: EFE
