Putin: The West wants to destroy Russia – Moscow has nothing to do with the energy crisis in Europe

The Russian president Vladimir Putin praised today the efforts made by the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan to end the war in Ukraine, but said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is not ready to participate in peace talks.

Speaking at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Uzbekistan, Putin said that Erdogan keeps proposing meetings with Zelesny – although he did not make a similar proposal at their meeting in Samarkand – and that the Turkish leader has a “significant contribution” to efforts to end the conflict.

Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed also the West that it wants to fragment Russia and said he sent Russian armed forces into Ukraine in February to prevent that.

Speaking at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit and publicly discussing the war for the first time since Ukraine pushed Russian troops out of the Kharkiv region last week, Putin threatened strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure and said: “We’ll see how (Ukraine’s counteroffensive) will end.”

The Russian president also said that Russia is in no rush to end “special military operation” in Ukraine and that it is gradually bringing Ukrainian territory under its control.

Referring to energy crisis in Europedenied that Russia has anything to do with this crisis and said that if European countries want more natural gas, they should ask Ukraine to open its natural gas pipelines and lift the sanctions that prevent the opening of the natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 in the Baltic.

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