On the one hand, Putin justified the war against Ukraine with the alleged oppression of the Russian-speaking population in the country. “And we have no plans to build such a fence.” “It’s impossible – you understand? – impossible to build a fence around a country like Russia,” Putin said. In his statements, the head of state apparently did not rule out a further expansion of Russian territory. “In addition to the Finno-Ugric tribes, Slavs have also lived there for centuries,” said the Kremlin chief. Even so, no European state recognized the area as Russian. Little has changed since then, Putin said in a conversation with young companies in the run-up to the St. June 9 is the 350th birthday of Peter the Great, who was the first Russian tsar to give himself the title of emperor and who, by conquering northern Russia, guaranteed access to the Baltic Sea – as the so-called “window to life”. “Yes, there have been times in our country’s history when we were forced to retreat – but only to regain our strength and move forward.” It is precisely this “recover and strengthen” that is still the task of those responsible in Russia today. “Apparently, it is also our destiny: to bring it back and strengthen it,” Putin drew parallels with the war against Ukraine, according to the Interfax news agency on Thursday. Peter did not conquer the area around the present-day Saint Petersburg metropolis from the Swedes, but he did reconquer it. Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin has put the war he ordered against Ukraine on a par with the Great Northern War under Russia’s Tsar Peter I and spoke of a campaign to return to Russian soil. Meanwhile, a high-ranking general in the Bundeswehr sees Germany as already at war – and not ready for it.
Tsar Peter the Great had to do something like this 300 years ago. “Everything that comes from the West and is institutionally anchored, like NATO or the EU, gets in the way of Putin’s expansion of his sphere of influence,” says our correspondent in Russia.Īccording to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the attack on Ukraine is an action to return Russian soil. “The EU is a thorn in the side of the Russian president,” says Christoph Wanner. Abroad on the occasion of the war in Ukraine Putin compares himself to Peter the Great, alludes to Russia’s biggest expansion
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