[Text/Observer Network Xiong Chaoran] According to the Associated Press, on September 20, local time, Russian President Vladimir Putin slammed the United States for maintaining its global hegemony, and also ordered Russian military enterprises to increase during the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. weapons production.
On the same day, Putin said while accepting the credentials of some of the newly appointed foreign ambassadors in Moscow: "The goal of a multipolar world faces resistance from those who want to maintain its hegemony in global affairs and control everything — —The other side wants to control Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa."
"I must say that this 'global leader' has managed to do this for quite some time." Putin did not specify by name, but No matter how the developments in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict develop, the country's hegemony cannot last forever. In this regard, The Associated Press believes that the "hegemonic country" Putin refers to is the United States.
Screenshot of Associated Press report On the same day, Putin pointed out that the sanctions imposed by Western countries on Russia due to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict are a manifestation of the strengthening of the United States and its allies, but he accused these sanctions that are counterproductive, not conducive to the sanctions implementers, and also hurt poor countries.
"As for Russia, we will not deviate from our sovereign line," Putin told the new ambassadors to Moscow.
Later that day, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with representatives of major domestic military enterprises in the Kremlin , and presided over the meeting. The meeting discussed issues such as safeguarding DoD-related supplies and the implementation of import substitution programs.
"Our weapons and equipment can effectively fight against Western weapons. NATO almost all of the weapons reserves are used to support the Kyiv regime." Putin ordered Russian military industrial enterprises to increase military industrial production capacity, and demanded that the supply to Ukraine be increased. Western weapons for research.
Putin said: "We can and must understand these weapons, understand everything they have, understand everything they use against us, improve our potential qualitatively, improve our equipment, improve our weapons where we need them ." In addition, he also demanded that Russia's weapons production be 100% completely import-substituted.
According to RIA Novosti and Interfax and other Russian media reported on September 20, Luhansk , Donetsk , Kherson and Zaporozhye four The region will hold a referendum on membership in Russia from September 23 to 27. In response to this news, the Ukrainian foreign minister responded on the same day that no matter what Russia said, Ukraine had "full right to liberate its territory." Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov commented on this, saying that the people should decide their own future.
Source: The Paper
