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re: Putin Threatens to NUKE The West & Plans to Flood West With African Migrants
Putin:'I DONT Want World War III - World War III Would Bring All Humanity to Brink of Destruction'
--But Says US ‘Needs to Stop Supplying Weapons’ to Ukraine
Vladimir Putin says Russia invading Poland or Latvia is 'out of the question'
- and insists military defeat for his troops in Ukraine is now 'impossible'
Volodymyr Zelenskiy Fires Top Ukraine Army Commander
- Valerii Zaluzhnyi to be replaced by land forces commander Oleksandr Syrskyi, in ‘renewal’ of armed forces
MailOnline 9 FEB 2024
He told US talk show host Tucker Carlson in an interview today that they 'simply don't have any interest' in expanding the war in Ukraine
Vladimir Putin played down fears of World War Three last night by claiming the prospect of Russia invading Poland or Latvia was 'out of the question'.
Russian soldiers load a rocket into a launcher on a mission at an undisclosed location in Ukraine in a photo released yesterday
The President said the Kremlin 'simply don't have any interest' in expanding the war in Ukraine and suggested such a conflict would 'bring all humanity to the brink of destruction'.
Putin made the comments in an interview with US talk show host Tucker Carlson, his first with a Western journalist since before Russia's invasion of Ukraine nearly two years ago.
He also claimed military defeat for his troops was 'impossible' in a remarkable two-hour sit down in which he also said Boris Johnson scuppered a deal to end the fighting 18 months ago.
Asked if he could imagine a scenario where his troops would be sent to Poland, Putin told Carlson: 'Only in one case, if Poland attacks Russia. We have no interest in Poland, Latvia or anywhere else.
'Why would we do that? We simply don't have any interest. It is absolutely out of the question.'
Vladimir Putin outrageously claimed last night that he was read to sign a deal to end the war with Ukraine 18 months ago but Boris Johnson scuppered the deal
Fears of WWIII were raised when Admiral Rob Bauer, the chairman of NATO's Military Committee urged both civilians and governments to prepare for cataclysmic conflicts and the chilling prospect of being conscripted.
'We have to realise it's not a given that we are in peace. And that's why we [NATO forces] have the plans, that's why we are preparing for a conflict with Russia,' Bauer told reporters last month after a meeting of NATO defence chiefs in Brussels.
'But the discussion is much wider. It is also the industrial base and also the people that have to understand they play a role.'
n a stark warning, he said civilians must be ready for a conflict in the next 20 years that would require wholesale change in their lives.
The governments of Estonia, Sweden and now the UK have already warned their respective nations that the prospect of large-scale war is on the horizon.
Putin outrageously claimed last night that he was ready to sign a deal to end the war with Ukraine a year asnd a half ago but Mr Johnson scuppered the deal.
He claimed the former Prime Minister 'dissuaded' the leader of Ukraine's leading party from signing the document and said it 'was better to fight Russia' in the interview with Carlson.
The Kremlin said Putin agreed to the interview because the approach of the former Fox News host 'differed from the one-sided reporting of the Ukraine conflict'.
The President was allowed to drone on unchallenged for long chunks of time as he gave a rambling history lesson about Russia dating back to the year 800.
He claimed that Davyd Arakhamia, the head of Ukraine's ruing party, put his 'preliminary signature' on the deal after direct negotiations with Russians in Istanbul.
Mr Putin said: 'But then he [Arakhamia] publicly stated to the whole world, we were ready to sign this document but Mr Johnson, then the Prime Minister, came and dissuaded us from doing this, saying it was better to fight Russia.
'They would give everything needed for us to return what was lost during the clashes with Russia. And we agreed with this proposal'.
Mr Putin went on: 'And the fact that they obey the demand or persuasion of Mr Johnson, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, seems ridiculous.
'And it's very sad to me because, as Mr Arakhamia put it, we could have stopped those hostilities with war a year and a half ago already. But the British persuaded us and we refused this. Where is Mr Johnson now? And the war continues.'
He accused the US of telling Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to refuse to negotiate any deal and said he wanted to agree a settlement.
'And we made it [a deal],' he said.
'We prepared the huge document in Istanbul that was initialed by the head of the Ukrainian delegation. He had fixed his signature to some of the provisions, not to all of it. He put his signature and then he himself said, we were ready to sign it, and the war would have been over long ago. Eighteen months ago.
Russian Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky, left, and Davyd Arakhamia pose for media during talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Dolmabahce Palace, Istanbul, in March 2022
Ukrainian Parliament member Arakhamia (C front) during Russian-Ukrainian talks in the Gomel Region of Belarus in February 2022
Putin claims they had prepared a huge document in Istanbul that was initialed by the head of the Ukrainian delegation (Pictured: Delegations from Ukraine and Russia in Belarus)
Zelenskyy and Commander of Ukraine's Ground Forces Colonel General Oleksandr Syrski, right, look at a map during their visit to the front line city of Kupiansk, Kharkiv region in November 2023
'However, Prime Minister Johnson came, talk to us out of it and we missed that chance. Well, you missed it. You made a mistake. Let them get back to that.'
The Kremlin has previously suggested Mr Johnson's trip to Kyiv in April 2022 as an intervention to derail any peace deal and would have seen Russia withdrawing its troops.
The deal would have seen Ukraine abandoning its plans to join Nato and accepting neutrality.
US journalist Tucker Carlson caught on camera entering Russian complex for Putin interview
Putin, Tucker Carlson interview complete:
President Zelensky Sacks Ukraines' Commander-in-Chief
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