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MOSCOW, Aug 16 (AP) \u2014 Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States of trying to encourage extended hostilities in Ukraine as part of what he described Tuesday as Washington\u2019s alleged efforts to maintain its global hegemony.<\/p>\n
Addressing a security conference attended by military officials from Africa,, Asia and Latin America, Putin reaffirmed his long-held claim that he sent troops into Ukraine in response to Washington turning the country into an \u201canti-Russia\u201d bulwark.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey need conflicts to retain their hegemony,\u201d Putin charged. \u201cThat\u2019s why they have turned the Ukrainian people into cannon fodder. The situation in Ukraine shows that the United States is trying to drag the conflict out, and it acts in exactly the same way trying to fuel conflicts in Asia, Africa and Latin America.\u201d<\/p>\n
The speech represented the latest attempt by the Russian leader to rally support amid bruising Western sanctions that targeted the Russian economy and finance along with its government structures, top officials and businesses for Moscow\u2019s action in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Putin also drew parallels between the U.S. backing Ukraine and a recent visit to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, charging that both were part of an alleged American attempt to foment global instability.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe American adventure in Taiwan wasn\u2019t just a trip by an irresponsible politician. It was part of a deliberate and conscious U.S. strategy intended to destabilize the situation and create chaos in the region and the entire world, a blatant demonstration of disrespect for another country\u2019 sovereignty and its own international obligations,\u201d Putin said.<\/p>\n
The Russian leader claimed that \u201cWestern globalist elites\u201d were trying \u201cto shift the blame for their own failures to Russia and China,\u201d adding that \u201cno matter how hard the beneficiaries of the current globalist model try to cling to it, it\u2019s doomed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201dThe era of the unipolar world order is nearing its end,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the same conference, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu charged that along with supplies of weapons to Ukraine, Western allies also have provided detailed intelligence information and deployed instructors to help the Ukrainian military operate the weapons systems.<\/p>\n
\u201cWestern intelligence agencies not only have provided target coordinates for launching strikes, but Western specialists also have overseen the input of those data into weapons systems,\u201d Shoigu said.<\/p>\n
He dismissed allegations that Russia could potentially use nuclear or chemical weapons in the conflict as an \u201cabsolute lie.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the military viewpoint, there is no need for using nuclear weapons in Ukraine to achieve the stated goals,\u201d Shoigu said. \u201cThe main mission of the Russian nuclear forces is providing a deterrent against a nuclear attack.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shoigu added that the claims of a possible chemical attack by Russia were equally \u201cabsurd,\u201d saying that Moscow fully liquidated its chemical weapons stockpiles in compliance with an international treaty banning chemical weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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