❗️"Morons": Putin Slams Ukraine's Rejection of Peace Deal
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The Russian President believes Ukraine is currently diverting attention from failures by laying siege to Russia's border region with strikes.
Vladimir Putin said the "barbaric" attacks on civilian areas are to show its… pic.twitter.com/eBiKl5HEcN
RT: Ukraine's leaders have only themselves to blame – Putin
Kiev bears full responsibility for the situation in which it finds itself, the Russian president said
Ukraine’s much-touted counteroffensive has now “completely failed” and its very statehood could soon suffer an irreparable blow, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during the ‘Small Motherland – the Strength of Russia’ forum in Moscow on Tuesday.
Putin noted that the head of Ukraine’s negotiation team, which participated in peace talks with Russia in the early months of the conflict, had recently admitted that Kiev was at one point ready to reach an agreement with Moscow. However, after a visit by then-British prime minister Boris Johnson, the Ukrainian authorities were convinced to stop pursuing a deal with Russia and continue fighting.
“Are they not idiots?” Putin asked, adding that if Ukraine had simply ignored Johnson, then the fighting could be long over by now. “This just proves yet again that they are not independent people,” the Russian leader said.
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WNU Editor: The Ukraine state that I grew up in certainly does not exist anymore, and it certainly will not exist when this war is finally over. What we will probably end up seeing is a country that will have lost about a third of its territory, and half of its population. The economy will certainly be crippled, and the state, or what remains of it, will owe the West trillions in loans for funding this war.
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