Putin: The West wants to liquidate Russia

ARK News… Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday confirmed that his country has no choice but to take into account the nuclear capabilities of NATO because the military alliance, led by the United States, seeks to defeat Russia.

“In the current circumstances, when all the major countries of NATO declare that their main goal is to inflict a strategic defeat on us, so that our people suffer, as they say, how can we ignore their nuclear capabilities in such circumstances?

Putin said that the West wants to liquidate Russia. "They have one goal: to sever the ties of the former Soviet Union and its main part - the Russian Federation," he was quoted as saying by TASS news agency.

Putin stressed that NATO is an indirect partner in Ukraine's "crimes". "The West wants to dismantle Russia in order to control it," he added, according to the Reuters news agency.

And the Russian President announced that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is participating in the conflict in Ukraine by supplying this country with weapons.

Putin said NATO countries "send tens of billions of dollars in weapons to Ukraine, this is real participation" in the conflict.

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