Russian President, Vladimir Putin has warned the US and other countries that the sanctions they have imposes on his country are a declaration of war.
The US, UK, Canada and a number of other European countries had slammed various sanctions against Russia following its attacks on neighbouring Ukraine since the 24th of February.
Addressing a group of flight attendants at an Aeroflot training centre near Moscow, on Saturday, Putin said: “These sanctions that are being imposed are akin to a declaration of war but thank God it has not come to that.
“We could have taken a different course of action.
“We could have helped the republics of Donbas at the contact line and reinforced them with the Russian army, but in this case, and I mean with the unwavering support from the west, we would have radicals on the other side coming endlessly… with support from the west.
“Our General Staff, the Ministry of Defense, went the other way; the first thing they did was to destroy the entire military infrastructure [of Ukraine, well, not all of it, but partially, mostly. Warehouses with weapons, ammunition, aviation, air defense systems.”
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia, a position he has filled since 2012, and previously from 2000 until 2008.
He was also the prime minister from 1999 to 2000, and again from 2008 to 2012. Putin is the second-longest current serving European president after Alexander Lukashenko of neighbouring Belarus.
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