{"id":6013,"date":"2022-01-01T17:22:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T17:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediateka.online\/learnrussian\/putin-accuses-west-of-coming-with-its-missiles-to-our-doorstep.html"},"modified":"2022-01-01T17:22:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T17:22:54","slug":"putin-accuses-west-of-coming-with-its-missiles-to-our-doorstep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediateka.online\/learnrussian\/putin-accuses-west-of-coming-with-its-missiles-to-our-doorstep.html","title":{"rendered":"Putin accuses west of \u2018coming with its missiles to our doorstep\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian president again voices anger at Nato expansion and says he would be prepared to intervene in Ukraine<\/p>\n<figure id=\"9e033908-ce46-40f2-b6bf-68f4b640fdaf\" class=\"dcr-13udsys\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"Vladimir Putin speaking during the televised press conference on Thursday\" height=\"259\" width=\"460\" class=\"dcr-1989ovb lazyload\"><noscript><img alt=\"Vladimir Putin speaking during the televised press conference on Thursday\" height=\"259\" width=\"460\" class=\"dcr-1989ovb\"><\/noscript>0&#8217;They keep telling us: war, war, war&#8217;: Putin accuses west of expanding towards Russia \u2013 video<\/figure>\n<p> in Moscow<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">Vladimir Putin has accused the west of \u201ccoming with its missiles to our doorstep\u201d as he reiterated demands for no further Nato expansion in Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">The Russian president did little to reduce tensions over Ukraine as he spoke at a televised press conference, saying he would be prepared to launch an intervention if he felt Ukraine or its western allies were preparing an attack on Russia\u2019s proxies in the country and saying he was seeking an \u201cimmediate\u201d response to his demands over Nato.<\/p>\n<p id=\"sign-in-gate\">\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">\u201cThey keep telling us: war, war, war,\u201d Putin said on Thursday. \u201cThere is an impression that, maybe, they are preparing for the third military operation [in Ukraine] and give us a fair warning: do not intervene, do not protect these people but if you do intervene and protect them, there will be new sanctions. Perhaps, we should prepare for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">Analysts have said Russia may be seeking a casus belli as it stations more than 100,000 soldiers, along with tanks and artillery, within striking distance of the Ukrainian border. The Russian defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, this week accused American mercenaries of transporting chemical weapons to the frontlines of the conflict zone, although he did not provide any evidence for the claim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">There are few signs that Ukraine\u2019s military is preparing an offensive in Donbas, where the frontlines have remained mostly<strong> <\/strong>static for six years. More than 14,000 people have died since fighting began in 2014.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"8cfa551b-e871-4144-8a83-3f74c8d97424\" class=\"dcr-1mfia18\">Russia causing \u2018severe deterioration\u2019 of European security \u2013 EU<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">Putin said he did not want war with Ukraine but would seek new security guarantees from the west in upcoming talks with the US, reiterating his controversial demand that Nato\u2019s eastern members remove troops and military installations that appeared after the countries\u2019 accession to the alliance in 1997. At the press briefing, Putin said Russia needs an \u201cimmediate\u201d response from the US and its allies to its demands. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">\u201cWe have made it clear that Nato\u2019s move to the east is unacceptable,\u201d he said. \u201cThe United States is standing with missiles on our doorstep. Is it an excessive requirement not to install shock systems at our house? How would the Americans react if missiles were placed at the border with Canada or Mexico?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">He once again expressed anger over Nato\u2019s expansion since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, an issue that has become central to his growing antagonism with the west.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">\u201cSometimes it seems we are living in different worlds,\u201d he said. \u201cThey said they wouldn\u2019t expand, but they are expanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">Putin said talks with the US should begin next year in Geneva, adding \u201cthe ball is now in their court\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">He said: \u201cAmerican partners tell us that they are ready to launch this discussion, these talks in Geneva at the very beginning of next year. Both sides\u2019 representatives have been appointed. I hope that the situation will unfold exactly under this scenario.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">Washington has confirmed it is ready to hold talks in January, although officials have made it clear that they\u2019re not ready to discuss European security without the Europeans in the room. A Biden administration official on Thursday said a specific date and location were yet to be set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">But the Kremlin has warned Washington not to stall, with Putin saying he wanted security guarantees \u201cright away, right now\u201d. His spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, has said he is not ready to engage in \u201cmarathon\u201d talks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">All that leaves open the possibility of a new Russian offensive in January, as weapons and crucial logistics infrastructure have continued to arrive by rail to Russia\u2019s border with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">On Thursday, Russia\u2019s defence ministry announced it would deploy hundreds of Russians paratroopers to hold drills in Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, and nearby Krasnodar region. The drills would simulate the capture of a territory and involve 1,200 troops and more than 250 vehicles and aircraft, the defence ministry said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">Russian state television pundits have also grown increasingly aggressive, openly discussing the possibility of a conflict with Nato. \u201cThe TV set in our barrack hysterically fights Nato all day long,\u201d wrote Alexei Navalny, the jailed opposition leader, in remarks from prison that were posted online. \u201cOn every channel, they talk about Nato threats. Putin himself laments that Nato is at our doorstep and we have nowhere to retreat. It seems that all of Russia lives on this only and people are no longer interested in any other news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">Putin\u2019s remarks came during a four-hour press conference on Thursday that the Kremlin holds annually in December. The event often has a carnival atmosphere, as serious questions about geopolitics are followed by softball questions meant to humanise Russia\u2019s president. Some journalists arrive in costume. Due to coronavirus, the Kremlin reduced the number of journalists in the hall to 500 and also installed special tunnels that sprayed attenders with an aerosol disinfectant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">Over the four hours, Putin took three questions on the possibility of a war with Ukraine, while also deflecting questions on flagging vaccination rates (Europe\u2019s are just as bad, he claimed), Gazprom\u2019s role in the European gas crisis (which he claimed was invented), his crackdown on internal dissent (\u201cexaggerated\u201d) and the search for the masterminds of the murders of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and the opposition politician Boris Nemtsov (\u201cexhaustive\u201d, Putin said).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">\u201cI want to remind you what our opponents have said over the centuries: \u2018Russia cannot be defeated, it can only be torn apart from within\u2019,\u201d he told a BBC Russia journalist during the event, when answering a question about the arrest of opposition figures and declaration of dozens of news outlets as foreign agents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">Putin also took some of questions on \u201ccancel culture\u201d, giving support to the Harry Potter author JK Rowling, as he compared views on transgender rights to new strains of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><!--noindex--><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/23\/putin-accuses-west-coming-with-missiles-doorstep\">Source<\/a><!--\/noindex--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian president again voices anger at Nato expansion and says he would be prepared to intervene in Ukraine 0&#8217;They keep telling us: war, war, war&#8217;: Putin accuses west of expanding towards Russia \u2013 video in Moscow Vladimir Putin has accused the west of \u201ccoming with its missiles to our doorstep\u201d as he reiterated demands for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news-from-russia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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