Russian President Vladimir Putin returns to speak by addressing an expanded meeting of the Prosecutor General’s Office. The United States and the European Union “use their satellites in Ukraine to try to destroy Russia from within, but they also failed because Russian society has shown all its maturity and support for the armed forces,” explained he in his speech to the Attorney General. Putin said he was “surprised” by “American and European diplomats using their Ukrainian satellites to achieve victory on the battlefield.” “It’s bizarre diplomacy, diplomats should ask for diplomatic solutions,” Putin said, explaining that “the West is showing its whole colonial past by doing this.”
The tsar returns to accuse Ukrainian nationalists and foreign mercenaries of “numerous violations of international law,” reports Tass. and he stated that “one million refugees, including over 100,000 children, have already arrived in Russia”. The Russian President then instructed the Attorney General’s Office to provide legal assistance to the refugees.
On the subject of Western sanctions against Moscow, Putin again denied the harmful effects on the Russian system. “The Russian economy” can remain “stable”, “without failures” despite the sanctions imposed by the West, he said at the meeting.