Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the collective West is using millions of Ukrainians as expendables in its geopolitical games and attempts to contain Russia.

In his speech at the headquarters of Russian foreign intelligence, he stated: “The so-called collective West in its practices proceeds from the fact that there is no alternative to the model of liberal globalization of the elite, where the rights of others are infringed. violated.”

A vivid example of this is the fate of many countries and peoples in the Middle East and other regions of the world, and today there are millions of people in Ukraine, whom the West simply uses as expendable material in geopolitical games and in its attempts to contain Russia.

Putin noted that “these attempts at containment are nothing more than a desire to prevent Russia from developing at the pace that it needs and on the basis of the traditional values ​​that it needs.”