Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro. File photoMEXICO CITY, Apr 9 Western countries want war with Russia to cut it to pieces, and the media dictatorship justifies the escalation on their part, said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on his Twitter blog.
"The West is coordinating economic, diplomatic and political efforts in a big war against Russia. We say this from Venezuela — they want a war to cut Russia into pieces, destroy and put an end to the hopes of a multipolar world", the president said, speaking at the closing of the international historical congress, which is broadcast on Twitter.
According to the politician, the combined efforts of the Western media is an information dictatorship that justifies the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine by the United States and its partners. , said Nicolas Maduro.A new world war has already begun, Maduro said Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. In response, Western countries have introduced a number of new anti-Russian sanctions. Many foreign companies have suspended their work in the Russian Federation. As stated in the Kremlin, Western sanctions are very serious, Russia was preparing for them in advance, they require analysis and coordination of departments in order to develop response measures that meet the interests of the Russian Federation. Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that the policy of containment and weakening of Russia is a long-term strategy of the West, and sanctions have dealt a serious blow to the entire global economy. «The political instructor is lying»: Goebbels' methods are still in demand by the West