Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the world faces the most dangerous and unpredictable decade since the end of World War II while insisting that the war in Ukraine is continuing as planned.
During a four-hour speech at a foreign policy conference in Moscow, Putin said Russia is ready for a negotiated end to the conflict in Ukraine, but insisted that Ukraine and its allied countries are unwilling to engage in diplomatic talks on the issue.
The Russian president also criticised Western powers and compared them to Nazi Germany.
President Vladimir Putin: “The disintegration of the Soviet Union destroyed the geopolitical balance of power. The West felt itself the victor and declared a unipolar world order in which only its will, culture and interests had the right to exist. Now, the historical period of the West’s total domination of world affairs is coming to an end”.
