Putin returns to the scene calling to stop the “tragedies” of Ukraine and Gaza

The Russian president, Vladimir Putinreturned today to the international stage at the summit of the G20 calling to stop “the tragedies” of Ukraine, brutal war started by Russia in 2022, and Gaza Stripterritory bombed for weeks by Israel.

“I understand that war, the death of people, cannot not be moved. And the bloody blow in Ukraine in 2014 that led to the kyiv regime’s war against its own people in Donbas? “Isn’t that moving?” he stated during his speech, broadcast on public television.

Putin, who has not attended the G20 meetings for three years and did not even participate remotely in the September summit, responded in this way to his colleagues who showed up today “shocked” with the consequences of “assault” Russian against Ukraine.

Ukraine does not want to stop the war, according to Putin

During his speech, he admitted that, “without a doubt, we must think about how to stop this tragedy,” in reference to the war in Ukraine.

“Of course, military actions are always a tragedy for individual people and families, and for the country in general,” he said, while adding that Russia “never” has refused to enter into peace negotiations with kyiv.

Putin recalled that it was the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who by decree prohibited dialogue with Russia to end the conflict that has already claimed the lives of tens of thousands of combatants on both sides.

The head of the Kremlin is willing to sit down to negotiate with Zelensky, but as long as he accepts the reality on the ground, that is, the annexation of four other Ukrainian regions, an impassable red line for Kiev.

And Gaza, doesn’t it move?

Still, with his allusion to the need to stop the bloodshed in Ukraine, Putin simply wanted to highlight the double standards of the United States and its allies.

He added: “And the extermination of the civilian population in Palestine, in the Gaza Strip, isn’t it impressive? And the fact that doctors have to operate on children (…), use scalpels on children’s bodies without anesthesia, doesn’t it have an impact?

“And for the UN Secretary General to say that Gaza has become a large children’s cemetery, isn’t it moving?”he highlighted.

Putin has been very active since the beginning of the war between the Islamist group Hamas and the Israeli army, a country that has remained on the sidelines of the Ukraine conflict, to which it has barely supplied weapons, despite Zelensky’s insistence. , Jewish by birth.

Although he did not meet with its members, Putin approved the visit to Moscow of a Hamas delegation and is awaiting the arrival of the president of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas.

Voice and vote for the developing world

Putin once again reminded the West that the world is experiencing “radical transformations” and that a large part of the investments are going to Africa, Asia and Latin America, regions that host most of the world’s population, for which he demanded “decisions collective and consensus.”

He accused “some countries” of destabilizing the world economy and causing an inflationary explosion and a dramatic increase in food and energy prices with irresponsible economic policies and unfair competition.

“It was not our actions and our attempts to bring justice to Ukraine. No. It was just the actions of the largest world economies (…) And those who suffered the most were, of course, the poorest countries.”he claimed.

To reverse the current drift, he advocated strengthening the role of developing countries in international financial institutions and reforming the World Trade Organization.

Return to the international stage

Putin once again shared the stage with other Western leaders just when it is an open secret that in December he will announce his decision to run for re-election in the March 2024 presidential elections.

Given the lack of successes on the battlefield, the electoral campaign will focus on the current antagonism with the US and NATO, which gave it so much benefit in the past.

Using the excuse of coronavirus and war, Putin did not attend the last three G20 summits in Italy, Indonesia and last September in India. In the last one he was represented by the Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov.

This year, largely because of the arrest warrant issued in March against Putin by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Ukraine, the Russian leader did not travel abroad until visiting Kyrgyzstan and China last month.