Putin spoke about the plans of opponents to achieve the disintegration of Russia

The goal of Russia’s strategic adversaries is the disintegration of the country, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the board of the Ministry of Defense.

“Our strategic opponents have the goal of disintegration and weakening, disunity of our country over the centuries. There is nothing new here. Too big, as they think, is a country that poses a threat to someone, so it needs to be tweaked a little, fragmented, ”Putin said (quote according to TASS).

At the same time, according to the head of state, Russia has always adhered to a different approach: it wanted to become part of the “so-called” civilized” world, but faced the fact that it was “not expected” there. “I say this with my work in mind, and I also made these attempts, our attempts, to get closer, to become this part – no,” he explained.

In November, Putin said that since the collapse of the USSR, Western countries have been interfering in the internal affairs of Ukraine, bringing a fuse to the collapse of Russia. According to him, in the decades after the collapse of the USSR, “Ukraine has gone the way of direct, overt interference by Western countries in its internal affairs,” and they tried to do the same with Russia.

At the same time, the head of state emphasized that Russia does not consider itself an enemy of the West, does not challenge the elites, but defends its right to exist.