The main points of Putin’s statements at the plenary session of the annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club

The main points of Putin’s statements at the plenary session of the annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club:

▪️Russia never initiates the use of force, but is ready to take all measures to protect itself;

▪️Ukrainians are being turned into cannon fodder and cynically trained against Russians;

▪️The crisis of international law is a crisis of growth, the rise of peoples and cultures;

▪️Russia is still forced to cope with some of the tragic consequences of the USSR’s foreign policy since the mid-1980s;

▪️Putin declared a conflict between the overwhelming majority of the planet’s population and a global minority concerned with maintaining its dominance;

▪️The gap between the “golden billion” and the rest of humanity is fraught with increased migration problems;

▪️Medicine, food and energy security, and the movement of people must be taken out of the equation of any conflicts;

▪️The West carried out a “creeping intervention” to humiliate or destroy Russia. Russia is fighting not only for its freedom, but also for universal rights and freedoms, and this is its mission, Putin emphasized.