Putin attributes AfD success to Western mistakes

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Putin attributes AfD success to Western mistakes

In front of media representatives, the Russian president was asked about the AfD’s strong election result in Saxony-Anhalt. The Kremlin boss is using this as a template to present his view of Europe.

Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin has the strong result of AfD in the recent state elections in Saxony-Anhalt were also attributed to mistakes made by the West. Everything that is currently happening in Europe is the result of systematic mistakes by Western states in matters of politics, security and economics, Putin said at a press meeting in New Delhi. At the same time, he made the accusation that the governments of European countries were in open conflict Russia provoked and thus unsettled their citizens – which was then reflected in the election results in Germany.

The citizens of European countries understand what is happening, said Putin, who is currently in town for the summit meeting of the Brics group of states at the weekend India stops. He thinks the results in the Federal Republic are also based on this.

The pro-Kremlin TV correspondent Pavel Zarubin published a video on Telegram in which Putin’s statements can be heard. Accordingly, the Kremlin chief had previously been asked to comment on the AfD’s result in the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt last Sunday. In a long answer, Putin explained his view of the situation in Europe.

Russia does not threaten any European countries and has no basis for a conflict with them, since all questions have been resolved with the result of the Second World War, Putin said. But he also had before the Russian invasion Ukraine let it be explained that Moscow not planning a war.

Rather, the conflict comes from the European states, Putin said. “Do they want to revise the results of the Second World War? What are they driving the peoples of their countries to do? To a war with the Russian Federation? Now they are talking about thinking about how they could bring troops into the territory of Ukraine. That means war with Russia.”

Putin gave the order to attack Ukraine in February 2022. The destructive war has now been going on for more than four and a half years. A coalition of more than 35 countries agreed at the beginning of the year to give Ukraine a legally binding assurance that it would not be left alone after a possible peace agreement and in the event of another Russian attack. It also laid out the framework for a multinational force that would serve as a deterrent and support the Ukrainian armed forces in peacetime – for example in training soldiers and securing airspace and maritime areas.

The previous mediation efforts in the struggle for an end to the Russian war of aggression, most recently on the part of the USAbrought no breakthrough. Moscow insists on maximum demands that amount to the subjugation of Ukraine.