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Putin friend reveals: He told me the purpose of the war in Ukraine is a ‘state secret’

For his friend Vladimir Putin the German businessman Matthias Warnich spoke, revealing that in their conversation the Russian president had revealed to him that “his purpose war in Ukraine it is a “state secret”.

Matthias Varnich, who is the executive director of the management company of the now defunct Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, in an interview with the German newspaper Die Zeit spoke about the meetings he had with the Russian president in Moscow after the start of the war in Ukraine.

Warnich is the only German citizen on the US sanctions list because of his ties to Russia and Putin. He very rarely gives interviews, writes the website Svoboda.org.

According to Varnich, in his meetings with Putin, he tried to convince the Russian president to end the war against Ukraine. Also, as reported by the Athens News Agency, he had asked Putin what the real goals of the so-called “special military operation” are.

Matias Varnich

“You talk about Donetsk and Lugansk and at the same time your troops want to occupy Kyiv. How does this go along? Do you want Odessa or Kharkiv or the whole of Ukraine? Or something more?’ Varnich allegedly posed this question to Putin, to which the Russian president replied: “This is a state secret.” Varnich claims that in another conversation he told Putin that he cannot win the war.

According to what Varnich said, who in May, under the pressure of public opinion, along with former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, left his position on the Board of Directors of (Russian oil company) Rosneft, rejected Putin’s proposal to go to stay in Moscow.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the Russian president was meeting with Varnich, but did not elaborate.

The interview is titled the words of Warnich himself, who says that at the moment he is toxic (“Ich bin toxisch”) in Germany and no one wants to have anything to do with him.

Matthias Varnich, who in Germany is called Putin’s friend, met Putin in the 1980s when the future Russian president, being a KGB agent, was working in Dresden.

Source: News Beast

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