Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused the United States of pushing Ukraine to transfer hostilities to the Russian territory.
In a prerecorded address to Russians on Wednesday afternoon, he announced a partial mobilization effective immediately and said the move is “fully adequate to the threats we face, namely to protect our homeland, its sovereignty and territorial integrity, to ensure the security of our people and people in the liberated territories.”
Putin said that the West, led by the United States, had been aggressive towards Russia for decades.
“The purpose of this West is to weaken, divide and ultimately destroy our country,” he said.
Washington, London and Brussels " are already openly saying that Russia must be defeated by all means on the battlefield, followed by the deprivation of economic, political, cultural, in general, any sovereignty, with the complete plunder of our country."
“They are already directly saying that in 1991 they were able to split the Soviet Union, and now the time has come for Russia itself, that it should break up into many regions and regions mortally hostile to each other.”
