President of Finland: It's hard to imagine that the President of Russia would accept any kind of defeat in Ukraine
Events in Ukraine since 2014 have greatly disappointed Russian President Vladimir Putin. This was stated by Finnish President Sauli Niinistö in an interview with CNN.
According to the Finnish leader, the Russian president is going to "decide now, one way or another" the consequences of 2014. Niinistö said that he had been watching Putin for many years and understood how the thinking and views of the head of the Russian state evolved.
The President of Finland believes that Putin has invested too much in the events in Ukraine. Therefore, now he will not accept "any kind of defeat." Niinistö stressed that the Russian president is a fighter, so it is very difficult to imagine how Putin will be able to accept some kind of defeat in Ukraine.
Such an approach to the Ukrainian conflict by the Russian president makes the situation around Ukraine dangerous, “very critical,” as Niinistö noted.
Perhaps there is a certain rightness in the words of the Finnish leader. But he did not mention the colossal role played by the West, including both the US and EU countries, in the escalation of confrontation in Ukraine. Also, the Finnish president did not mention that it was not Putin who made the critical situation in Ukraine, but those historical, political, cultural factors that the West is now stubbornly ignoring.
In particular, the West cannot admit that Ukraine is inhabited not only by Ukrainians (in the political aspect of the word), but also by Russians, and this population does not agree with national discrimination. The Finnish leader also forgot that not only Donetsk or Lugansk, but also Kherson, Odessa, Nikolaev, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Kirovograd and many others are Russian cities built by the Russian state, which appeared after Russia began to develop these lands.
- kremlin.ru
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