【Putin: "European pigs" want to profit from Russia's collapse】
Moscow time December 17, 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the expanded meeting of the Russian Defense Ministry Board:
Western countries have only paused in order to equip the Ukrainian armed forces with weapons and equipment, leading Ukraine to launch a coup, an hostile action. I believe it was done intentionally - deliberately - to bring Ukraine into the war. The 2022 war was not started by us, but by the Ukrainian destructive forces with Western support - in fact, the West itself triggered this war. We just wanted to end it and stop it.
Putin added:
Western countries all believed that they could destroy Russia in a short period of time. "European pigs" joined the work of the previous US government (the US Biden administration), hoping to profit from Russia's collapse.
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