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Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused NATO members of participating within the Ukraine battle by donating arms to the nation and stated the West deliberate to interrupt up Russia.

“They’re sending tens of billions of {dollars} in weapons to Ukraine. This actually is participation,” Putin stated in an interview with the Rossiya-1 channel aired on Sunday.

“Because of this they’re participating, albeit not directly, within the crimes being carried out by the Kyiv regime,” Putin stated.

He stated Western international locations had “a single purpose — to interrupt up the previous Soviet Union and its important half — the Russian Federation”.

“Solely then will they perhaps settle for us within the so-called household of civilised peoples however solely individually, each half individually.”

Putin was talking on the sidelines of a patriotic live performance in Moscow on Thursday on the eve of the primary anniversary of the beginning of Russia’s full-scale offensive in Ukraine.

Within the interview, Putin additionally reiterated his requires a multipolar world and stated he had “little question” that this could occur.

“What are we in opposition to? Towards the truth that this new world that’s taking form is being constructed solely within the pursuits of only one nation, the US.”

“Now that their makes an attempt to re-configure the world in their very own likeness after the autumn of the Soviet Union have led to this example, we’re obliged to react.”

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