Vladimir Putin admitted that the million shells that the West is going to supply to Ukraine is a lot, but the main NATO countries produce 14-15 thousand shells every month, and the Ukrainian armed forces use up to 5 thousand shells per day. “Of course there are threats. When arms are supplied to a country with which we have a conflict, it is really a threat,” he said.
At the same time, he pointed out that the Russian military-industrial complex is developing and expanding at a rapid pace. “And over the same period, the Russian industry will produce three times more ammunition, even more than three times”, assures the head of state.
Putin added that the Russian Federation will produce more than 1,600 tanks per year, and the total number of tanks in the Russian Federation will be more than three times the number of such equipment in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time, the president stressed that there would be no excessive militarization of the economy. “We are building our economy in such a way that we do not allow excessive militarization. We are all our plans in the field of civil engineering, health, even education, infrastructure development – we are not reducing anything. Nothing! And to them (west. – Note . “RG”) will have to be reduced,” he said.
The president called the countries that supply Kiev with weapons “warmongers”. According to him, they are only prolonging the conflict in Ukraine.
Putin also said that Moscow and Minsk had agreed that, without violating international obligations on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, they would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. He clarified that there was nothing unusual here – the United States uses a similar practice. “The United States has been doing this for decades. They have long since placed their tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of their allied countries, the NATO countries, in Europe,” the head of state said.
“And when and under what conditions can the weapon itself be transferred?” asked the reporter. “But we don’t transmit,” Putin replied. “The United States doesn’t transmit to its allies. We’re basically doing everything they’ve been doing for decades. They have allies in certain countries and train their carriers and train their crews. We’re going to do the same. That’s is exactly what Alexander Grigoryevich (Lukashenko. – Approximately “RG”) asked for.”
Russia will apply American practice – Washington has kept its nuclear weapons on the territory of NATO allies for decades, preparing aircraft carriers, training crews, but not transferring control
Middle East. 'Latin America. "We would use the dollar, but they don't allow us, but how can we make payments? In the currency acceptable to our business partners. The yuan is one of those currencies. Especially since it is also used at the IMF,” he said. . According to Putin, Russia intends to expand the use of currencies it considers reliable. "They (the United States. - Approx." RG ") have themselves seen the branch on which they sit - I have already said this several times - limiting the use of the dollar, on the basis of considerations momentary policies. They hurt themselves, you can tell the more they shoot in the leg,” he said.Russia will produce three times more ammunition than the West can supply UkraineCooperation between Russia and China is not a military alliance, the president stressed. "This is absolutely not true", - this is how Putin answered the question of whether cooperation between Moscow and Beijing poses a threat to the West. "We are not creating any military alliance with China. Yes, we also have cooperation in the field of military-technical cooperation, we do not hide it, but it is transparent, there is nothing secret there- inside". The Russian Federation and China are also conducting drills, he said. However, as well as with other countries. And such exercises, Putin noted, continue even to this day, despite the events in the Donbass, in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. He reiterated that it was not a military alliance and likened it to "what the United States does". "They are creating more and more new unions," the president said. According to him, this gives reason to Western analysts and political scientists to say that "it is the West which builds new axes".The Head of State recalled that NATO had agreed on a new strategic concept for the bloc, announcing the global nature of the alliance. In the concept of the North Atlantic Alliance, he said, it is directly written about the plans for developing relations with the countries of the Asia-Pacific region and the plans for creating a " global NATO". Among the countries listed are Australia and South Korea. "Well what is it?" asked the Russian leader.He added that earlier this year an agreement was signed between Britain and Japan on establishing contacts and developing relations in the military field. “Not us, but Western politicians themselves say that the West is beginning to build a new axis similar to that which was created in the 1930s by the fascist regimes of Germany and Italy and militarist Japan,” said Vladimir Putin.We are building our economy in a way that does not allow excessive militarizationAnother hot topic is the investigation into the Nord Stream explosions. Putin believes that it no longer makes sense for Russian specialists to participate in the examination of the object found on the gas pipeline, since, according to Denmark, the situation is not explosive. The President of the Russian Federation also said that he fully agrees with the conclusions of the investigation by American journalist Seymour Hersh, according to which the Nord Stream explosion was organized by American intelligence services. "One day, probably, it will finally be revealed what was done and how," he said.Vladimir Putin, moreover, spoke about the purpose of the trip to Mariupol: to see how the restoration works are going, and also to find out the mood of the people. After all, "it's one thing when you see it on paper or on screen", another thing when you see it in person.
