Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at the Eastern Economic Forum, an event lasting more than three hours, where he described the Ukrainian incursion in Kursk as “a failure.”
The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, has spoken about the Ukrainian offensive in the Russian region of Kursk during his speech at Eastern Economic Forumwhich is being celebrated these days in Vladivostok, in eastern Russia. Putin has assured that this deployment of troops could cause the collapse of Ukrainian defensive lines in other territories, as he claims has already happened in Donetsk.
“The enemy’s objective was to make us nervous, stir us up, make us transfer troops from one area to another and make us stop our offensive in key areas,” said the head of the Kremlin. “Did it work? No, he enemy has not been successful,” he stated.
According to the Russian president, his army first stabilized the situation and then gradually expelled Ukrainian forces from the border areas. He has also claimed that kyiv has not taken sufficient measures to contain its offensive.
Ukraine’s mistake, he noted, was moving “quite large and well-trained units to these border areas,” and weakening their strength in other key areas, where the Russians have accelerated their offensive operations.
Russia seeks allies in the East
Putin has revealed that he plans to expand “ties between our country with various foreign partners, friends, countries and companies that are interested in reliable, long-term and mutually beneficial cooperation”, in order to “strengthen Russia’s position in the world”.
For the Russian, the future development of his country depends mainly on Eastespecially because of the possibilities it offers in the business market. “The Eastern Economic Forum has rightly become a recognized platform for establishing strong business contacts and discussing issues of strategic development of Eastern Russia and the entire region of Asia and the Pacific“.
There would be more than thirty countries that are willing, according to Putin, to “join or cooperate” with the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). They are also planning increase freight traffic along the Arctic route, from the Kara Sea to the Bering Strait.
Moscow is with Kamala Harris
Putin has also surprised supporting to the Democratic candidate for United States presidency. During his speech, he stated that Kamala Harris has “a contagious laugh” and that is a sign that “everything is going well.”
“Our favorite, if we can call it that, was the Mr Bidenbut he is no longer in the race,” he lamented. Regarding the Republican candidate, Donald Trumphas criticized that he has been the president who more sanctions and tariffs ah tax on Russia.
Doubt about the investigations against the CEO of Telegram
About the imprisonment of the CEO of TelegramPavel Durov, a Russian national, has considered that perhaps Russia also “could have some questions about” the case that has led him to be investigated in France, but has stated that “if they do this to Durov, then the others will have to be imprisoned“responsible for “platforms of that style.”
Las Paris accusations against Durovhe lamented, “they are not very clear” and seem “selective“He met with the CEO of Telegram on one occasion, he recalled, “many years ago.” “I regularly meet with business people, and he was at one of the meetings in the Kremlin. “We haven’t seen each other since then,” he said.
Durov was arrested in France and is accused of several charges related to the Telegram platform and the use that some users make of it, specifically regarding drug trafficking and dissemination of child sexual abuse content. He has been released pending investigation, but his arrest sparked outrage in Russiawith some members of the Government alleging that it hides political motivations and proves the West’s double standards in terms of freedom of expression.
