MOSCOW, Dec 21 Ukraine will soon have nothing apart from handouts, and Russia has everything it needs, President Vladimir Putin said at an expanded meeting of the collegium of the Ministry of Defense.
«What I want to emphasize is that we, Russia, and there are few such countries in the world, I'm not talking about our neighbors , they will soon have nothing at all, everything will be only in the form of handouts and money, and weapons, and ammunition, only handouts,» he noted.
Putin also assured that «we have everything, all the possibilities for
During an expanded meeting of the board of the Ministry of Defense, the head of the department, Sergei Shoigu, said that 27 countries have already spent $ 97 billion on arms supplies to Ukraine to make up for losses in equipment and manpower. According to him, part of the military equipment is in the hands of terrorists and is “spreading all over the world.”
Against the background of the Russian special operation to protect Donbass, which began on February 24, Western countries, led by the United States, continue to pump weapons to Kyiv and help with intelligence, devastating and depleting their own arsenals. Moscow has repeatedly stated that the supply of foreign military equipment only prolongs the conflict.