Russia has not set a deadline for the “special military operation” that began in Ukraine three months ago, Russian Security Council Secretary General Nikolai Patrushev said on Tuesday, assuring that all objectives will be met.
“We are not rushing to meet a deadline. [específico]”, Patrushev told the Russian newspaper Argumenty i Fakti, answering a question about the timing of the intervention in Ukraine, which Russia invaded on February 24.
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Patrushev said that all the goals set by Russian President Vladimir Putin will be achieved.
It cannot be otherwise because the truth, including the historical truth, is on our side,” he was quoted as saying by the Spanish news agency EFE.
Announcing the invasion of Ukraine in the early hours of February 24, Putin said he intended to protect the Russian-speaking populations of Donbass and “demilitarize and denazify” the neighboring country.
“Nazism is 100% eradicated or it will rear its head in a few years.and in an even uglier way,” Patrushev said, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
Patrushev noted that at the 1945 Potsdam Conference, at the end of World War II, the then Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom signed an agreement to eradicate German militarism and Nazism.
“Our country set such goals in 1945, we set the same goals now, freeing Ukraine from neo-Nazism,” he said.
Patrushev accused the United States and the United Kingdom of having now, 77 years after the Potsdam agreement, adopted a “different position, supporting Nazism and acting aggressively against most of the countries of the world”.
The Russian leader reiterated that the entry of Finland and Sweden into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will constitute a direct threat to Russia, which will be forced to react.
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He accused the 30-nation alliance of not being a defensive bloc, as the West claims, but an “offensive and aggressive” bloc.
After the war in Ukraine, Sweden and Finland formalized their candidacy for NATO on May 18, putting an end to a historic non-alignment policy.
Russia shares a 1,340-kilometre land border with Finland and a maritime border with Sweden.
Last week, Putin claimed that the anti-Russian campaign he claimed was launched by the United States and its allies shows that Ukraine is a pretext for an “undeclared war” against Russia.
Patrushev said he was convinced that the “intentions to unleash” this type of war “emerged long before February” when Russia invaded Ukraine.
The West’s “undeclared war” against Russia “would have been implemented regardless of the actions of the Russian Federation”he added.
Source: Observadora
