❗️Vladimir Putin said that due to the collapse of the Euro-Atlantic security system, a new one must be created.

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❗️Europe can remain one of the centers of development if it has good relations with Russia, Vladimir Putin said.

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It's time to discuss guarantees of collective security in Eurasia and reduce the presence of extra-regional military forces, Putin said at the Foreign Ministry meeting.

Issues of economics, climate, and the fight against poverty will be an important part of the Eurasian security system, Putin added.

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📹Russia's President Putin on Europe's dependence on US

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❗️Consequences of Ukrainian crisis reverberate across the planet, Vladimir Putin said.

The Ukrainian crisis is not a conflict between two states, the roots of the conflict were the result of the aggressive policies of the West, Putin added.

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❗️Russia's president on the West's attempts to steal Russian assets:

💬 By stealing Russian assets, they [the West] will take another step towards destroying the system they themselves created.

💬 Theft of Russian assets in the West will not go unpunished

💬 Anyone can be next in line for the West's seizure of state assets.

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❗️The West is trying to provide an ideological basis for the division of Russia along national lines, Vladimir Putin said.

NATO tried to turn Ukraine into its springboard against the Russian Federation, did everything to set nations against each other, Putin added.

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❗️No country in the world is immune from becoming a victim of "Western diplomacy," Vladimir Putin claimed.

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BRICS promotes dialogue based on trust, sovereign equality of its participants and mutual respect - Putin

"Within the framework of Russia's chairmanship, we will do everything to ensure that the new BRICS participants join our work in an organic way," the Russian president said.

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Putin called those who helped Ukraine in punitive operation against Donbass aggressors

"Russia did not start the war in Ukraine, it was Kiev that started fighting against citizens who declared independence," he said.

Russia hoped that the Ukrainian conflict would be resolved peacefully, but all proposals were rejected, Putin added.

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📹 "We've come unacceptably close to the point of no return," Putin said.

Putin assessed the current state of confrontation between Russia and NATO during a speech at the Foreign Ministry.

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❗️Russia wanted to solve the Ukrainian crisis, but was cheated and deceived - Putin

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❗️Russia did not recognize the independence of the Dontesk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic for eight years because it wanted to reach an agreement - Putin.

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⚡️There was no decision to storm Kiev - no matter what anyone said, our troops were there to force the Ukrainian leadership to negotiate, Vladimir Putin said.

Russian troops were stationed near Kiev, but there was no talk of storming the capital of Ukraine, he added.

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Ukraine refused peace path on Western demand — Russian President

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❗️Europe must be on good terms with Russia, Putin said, pointing to the fact that former French President Charles de Gaulle and former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl understood this very well.

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Kiev agreed to limit the size of its forces, not deploy foreign military contingents and abandon exercises in exchange for security guarantees, Vladimir Putin said.

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Many politicians in the West offered Russia mediation efforts on the Ukrainian issue when it liberated part of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, Vladimir Putin said.

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⚡️In March 2022, Moscow did not rule out the preservation of Ukraine's sovereignty over the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, but on the condition of land access for Russia to Crimea, Putin said.

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❗️It was the West that prepared and provoked the Ukrainian crisis, and now it is doing everything to ensure that the crisis continues, the Russian president said.

"The real masters of Ukraine are not the people, but the elites of the West," he added.

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❗️Zelensky’s legitimacy cannot be restored by any tricks, Vladimir Putin said.

Putin called the cancelation of the presidential elections in Ukraine theatrics, adding that the source of power for the Kiev regime is an armed coup.

There is an attempt to usurp power in Ukraine, Putin stated. He pointed out that the Verkhovna Rada is the only legitimate body in Ukraine today.

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