Putin announced the inevitable victory of Russia over Ukraine
2023.01.18 14:33
Putin announced the inevitable victory of Russia over Ukraine
By Kristina Sobol
Budrigannews.com – On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia’s powerful military-industrial complex was increasing production and would win the Ukraine conflict.
Putin told workers at a St. Petersburg factory that makes air defense systems that Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine was making more military equipment even as demand for it was growing.
Putin stated, “There are several things in terms of achieving the end result and the victory that is inevitable… It is the unity and cohesion of the Russian and multinational Russian people, the courage and heroism of our fighters… and of course the work of the military-industrial complex and factories like yours and people like you.”
“I have no doubt that victory is certain.”
According to Putin, Russian arms manufacturers produced three times as many anti-aircraft missiles as the United States and the rest of the world combined.
He had just gone to a gathering of veterans to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of his hometown, then known as Leningrad, from the Nazi-German blockade that lasted nearly 900 days during World War II.
He told the veterans that Russia was fighting in Ukraine to protect ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking people, whom Moscow claims are discriminated against in Ukraine in a systematic way.
Moscow, according to Kyiv, is using the allegation as a pretext for an open land grab in the style of colonialism.
According to Putin, “what we are doing today, including with our special operation, is an attempt to stop this war and protect our people who live on these territories”
He said, “These are our historical territories,” referring to the fact that a significant portion of the present-day Ukraine was once a part of the Russian Empire.
Putin started his career in foreign intelligence in the Soviet KGB in Leningrad, where he was born in 1952. Later, while his political mentor Anatoly Sobchak was mayor, he held positions in the city administration.
