🎙 Excerpt from President Vladimir Putin's remarks at an expanded meeting of the Defence Ministry Board at the National Defence Control Centre of the Russian Federation
💬 We are not fighting with the Ukrainian people, but with the regime – the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev, which seized power back in 2014. The source of their authority is a state coup.
All the troubles in both Ukraine and Russia began precisely after this bloody, anti-constitutional state coup. It remains relevant today because those in power are committing crimes against their own citizens and our citizens every day.
This regime has lost – or is at least evidently losing – the signs of statehood.
When we speak of illegitimacy, what do we mean? They did not organise the elections, did they? They did not. Does the Constitution provide an option to extend the President's powers? No. The Constitution only allows for an extension of the powers of the representative body – the Rada, and nothing more. And the reference to martial law is irrelevant: there are no provisions in Ukraine's Constitution to extend the President's powers.
The next crime will be the lowering of the mobilisation age in Ukraine to 18. This is clearly a crime, because even if it were lowered to 14, as in Hitler's Germany, creating the Hitler Youth, it would not change the situation on the battlefield. That is obvious to everyone.
However, I believe that at the behest of those Western countries whose interests the Kiev regime is protecting – it is clear today that it is not safeguarding the interests of the Ukrainian people but rather those it serves and protects – they will also reduce mobilisation age to eighteen years, and young lads will be sent to the slaughter.
❌ Just as people are currently being rounded up on the streets, like stray dogs, during forced mobilisation and thrust into the line of fire, it seems to me that these boys will likewise be sent to their doom in the same manner. And then, these regime figures will simply flee abroad under the cover of those they work for today, and that's all.
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💬 We are not fighting with the Ukrainian people, but with the regime – the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev, which seized power back in 2014. The source of their authority is a state coup.
All the troubles in both Ukraine and Russia began precisely after this bloody, anti-constitutional state coup. It remains relevant today because those in power are committing crimes against their own citizens and our citizens every day.
This regime has lost – or is at least evidently losing – the signs of statehood.
When we speak of illegitimacy, what do we mean? They did not organise the elections, did they? They did not. Does the Constitution provide an option to extend the President's powers? No. The Constitution only allows for an extension of the powers of the representative body – the Rada, and nothing more. And the reference to martial law is irrelevant: there are no provisions in Ukraine's Constitution to extend the President's powers.
The next crime will be the lowering of the mobilisation age in Ukraine to 18. This is clearly a crime, because even if it were lowered to 14, as in Hitler's Germany, creating the Hitler Youth, it would not change the situation on the battlefield. That is obvious to everyone.
However, I believe that at the behest of those Western countries whose interests the Kiev regime is protecting – it is clear today that it is not safeguarding the interests of the Ukrainian people but rather those it serves and protects – they will also reduce mobilisation age to eighteen years, and young lads will be sent to the slaughter.
❌ Just as people are currently being rounded up on the streets, like stray dogs, during forced mobilisation and thrust into the line of fire, it seems to me that these boys will likewise be sent to their doom in the same manner. And then, these regime figures will simply flee abroad under the cover of those they work for today, and that's all.
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