Putin on the war in Ukraine: Sooner or later the situation will return to normal

THE Vladimir Putin spoke at the World Economic Forum in St. Petersburg and clarified that only when the war in Ukraine The relations between the two states will be restored, something that will happen “sooner or later”.

In particular, in an interview with Kazakh President Kasim-Zomart Tokayev, Putin said: “sooner or later, the situation will return to normal“, But once the Russian invasion is over.

In fact, the Russian president assured that Moscow does not oppose a possible accession of Ukraine to the European Union. «We have nothing against it, it is their decision whether or not to join economic associations “It’s their business, it’s a matter for the Ukrainian people,” he said.

However, Putin said that “Ukraine will become a half-colony” of Western countries if it joins the EU. “That is my view,” he added.

Lavrov: “We did not invade Ukraine”

The Russian Foreign Minister spoke to the BBC “We did not invade Ukraine; we declared a special military operation because we had no other way to explain to the West that pushing Ukraine into NATO was a criminal act,” he said.

Lavrov also reiterated the Kremlin’s official line that there were Nazis in Ukraine and that the Russian army was “de-Naziizing” the country.

“Is this the war against the Nazis?” asked the BBC correspondent Lavrov, to which he replied: “It is a great pity; but international diplomats, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Secretary-General and other UN representatives, are under pressure from the West. And very often they are used to reinforce the false news spread by the West…