Putin defends 'noble' Ukraine war, says peace talks are at 'dead end'
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The Russian President also signalled that the war with Ukraine will grind on for longer.
New Delhi: President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday (April 12, 2022) addressed the war in public for the first time since Russian forces retreated from northern Ukraine after they were halted at the gates of Kyiv and promised that Russia would achieve all of its "noble" aims in Ukraine.
He also signalled that the war will grind on for longer and stated that peace talks with Ukraine had hit a "dead end". Putin said that Kyiv had derailed peace talks by staging what he said were fake claims of Russian war crimes and by demanding security guarantees to cover the whole of Ukraine.
"We have again returned to a dead-end situation for us," Putin, Russia's paramount leader since 1999, told a news briefing during a visit to the Vostochny Cosmodrome, around 5,550 km east of Moscow.
Asked by Russian space agency workers if the operation in Ukraine would achieve its goals, Putin said, "Absolutely. I don`t have any doubt at all."
Russia will "rhythmically and calmly" continue its operation but the most important strategic conclusion was that the unipolar international order which the United States had built after the Cold War was breaking up, Putin said.
