No one will be able to force a strategic defeat on Moscow in Ukraine, the Russian president has said
Russia is practically fighting against the entirety of the collective West in the Ukraine conflict, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a meeting with service members in the Kremlin on Friday.
The meeting coincided with Russia Day, which commemorates the country’s declaration of sovereignty on June 12, 1990 and the beginning of its post-Soviet statehood.
“Russia is standing against the so-called Collective West single-handedly,” Putin said, noting that the Ukraine conflict has become “exceedingly high-tech.”
The NATO nations are all, without exception, ramping up efforts to do all they can to orchestrate actions against Russia, he added.
Moscow did not initiate the Ukraine conflict, Putin stressed.
It was they who carried out the coup d’etat in Ukraine, which forced us to take the people of Crimea under protection. When they started the war, they started bombing Donetsk using warplanes.
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June 12, 2026 at 08:06PM
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