“Putin won’t stop”. Invasion of Ukraine “a matter of time”

oh Former US President Bill Clinton, as early as 2011, found that Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was “a matter of time”.

In an interview with the newspaper Financial TimesThe former head of state indicated that he informed the Russian president that the decision was reached after a meeting with Putin in Davos, Switzerland, along with his wife Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state and US presidential candidate. He said he would not honor a deal signed by his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, that guaranteed Ukraine’s territorial integrity in exchange for Ukraine’s nuclear arsenal.

“[Putin] ‘I don’t agree with that. And I don’t support it. I’m not caught up in it.’ From then on I knew it was a period [até à invasão]”, he pointed out.

So the couple appealed to the West to increase support for Kiev, warning that the situation in Taiwan could increase not only the Russian leader’s influence, but also that of China’s Xi Jinping.

“Before the Russian invasion, I think it had a good chance [Jinping] Within two or three years Taiwan would have advanced. I think that plan has been shelved,” said Hillary Clinton.

Putin, for his part, “will not stop”, what he sees as “a just fight to undermine Western democracy and reassert the Russian empire”.

Along these lines, the former presidential candidate argued that in order to defeat Moscow, Kiev must recover lost territories in the east of the country.

“I do not believe [em Putin] “If the Ukrainians, supported by us, do not have enough influence at the negotiating table under any circumstances,” he added.

Launched on February 24, the Russian military offensive in Ukraine has already displaced more than 14.6 million people, according to the latest data from the United Nations (UN), classifying the refugee crisis as Europe’s worst since World War II. II (1939-1945).

The agency confirmed that more than 8,709 civilians have died and 14,666 have been injured since the start of the war, however, underlining that these numbers are much lower than the actual numbers.

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