It is obvious that the West will try to divide society. Putin says the West is trying to make money from it. The West understands that it cannot win against Russia. “It is impossible to defeat our country on the battlefield,” he says. He is convinced that the majority of the Russian population supports the government’s actions in defending Donbass. “I want to thank the Russian people for their determination and courage.”
Putin nevertheless accuses the West of striving for “limitless power”. “The flow of money from the West into the war is not decreasing,” he said in front of the parliament in Moscow. Trillions of dollars are at stake for the West. Western countries had long since started turning Ukraine into a kind of “anti-Russia”. “The West has let the genie out of the bottle,” says Putin.