Monitoring Desk
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed a decisive response to any country threatening Russia and lashed out against Berlin for promising battle tanks for Kyiv.
His remarks came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that the Ukraine was consolidating its troops for a fresh offensive.
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Zelensky was speaking in Kyiv beside EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, who said the EU was looking to finalize new sanctions against Moscow by February 24, exactly one year after the Russian President ordered forces into Ukraine.
In the southern city of Volgograd, the Russian President said that it is unbelievable but true that they are again being threatened by German battle tanks.
Putin was speaking at a function commemorating the Red Army’s victory against Nazi forces 80 years ago in Stalingrad. Putin said that a modern with Moscow will be fully different.
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President Zelensky claimed that Moscow is preparing to attempt to take revenge, not only against Kyiv, but against a free Europe and the world.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed the EU and specifically von der Leyen had called for Moscow to be defeated so its economy would be devastated. Lavrov questioned, is this not racism, not Nazism.
