Thread by @Mylovanov

BBC asks Putin if he believes Russia is safer now after he invaded Ukraine.

Putin acknowledges attacks on Russian territory, struggles to justify that it has become safer. He rumbles about Russian global standing, NATO bases in Ukraine, and 2014 1/

BBC: But how does all this [BRICS calls for justice and peace] correlate with your actions, over the last two and a half years, with the invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops?

That's where justice, stability and security, including Russia's security 1/

Because before the SWO, there were no drone attacks on Russian territory, no shelling of Russian cities, no foreign troops occupying Russian territory.

There was none of that 2/

BBC: And lastly, how does this all relate to the statement, here recently, by British intelligence, that Russia has set out to sow chaos on the streets of Britain and Europe by arson, sabotage, and so on.
Is that where the stability is? 3/

Putin: You said about drone strikes and so on. Yes, that didn't happen, but there was a much worse situation. The situation was that our constant and insistent offer to establish contacts, relations with the countries of the Western world [was denied] 4/

Basically, Putin says the West didn’t want to be friends with us so we started a war. But there is more 5/

Putin: Now, in terms of security in general.
I understand what you are saying.
But is it fair from a security point of view to ignore our constant appeals to partners for years, to not expand NATO eastward? 6/

Putin then goes on about NATO expansion ignoring the agency of Ukraine and the fact that Ukraine only wants to join NATO to be safe from Putin 7/

Then, he accuses NATO of building bases in Ukraine, which never happened

Putin: Is it fair to crawl into our underbelly, into Ukraine?
And start building there, not preparing, but building military bases? 8/

Putin: is it fair to be disregarding international rights and all the principles of international law and the UN Charter?
By financing a coup in another country, in this case Ukraine? 9/

The irony here is that it is Putin who financed politicians in Ukraine and orchestrated separatist protests. It is Putin who violated the international law and invaded Ukraine 10/

On chaos and sabotage in Europe by Russia, Putin: That is utter nonsense.
You know, what's happening on the streets of some European cities,
is a result of the internal politics of those nations 11/

Not a word from Putin mouth is true. I don’t know what those people are think who believe they can sign any agreement with him. They must be in denial. 12X