Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he does not want Russia to return to the path “until 2022,” which was a covert intervention against it.
“I would not like Russia to return to the path it was on before 2022, as I already said in my speech. And that was a path that was associated with such a hidden, veiled intervention about our country, aimed at subordinating it to the interests of some other countries that still believed that they had the right to do so,” he said, speaking at a plenary session of the Valdai Discussion Club.
The President noted that Russia has never refused integration, but “is going its way” because it simply cannot exist in a subordinate state. “And it seems to me that our people, the most simple people, ordinary citizens realized this when they realized what our geopolitical opponents are trying to do to us,” he added.
According to Putin, the consolidation of Russian society is connected precisely with the understanding of the country’s strategic interests—” in strengthening its independence, autonomy, and sovereignty,” TASS reports.
