NATO uses Ukraine to weaken Russia, says Ortega

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has declared that NATO is using Ukraine to find a way to strike what would weaken Russia strategically.

 

“This is a war in which NATO is using Ukraine to find a way to strike – that will weaken Russia strategically. Threatening China in the midst of this is madness … In other words, this is the madness of US-led hegemonic politics,” Ortega was quoted as saying by local television channel TN8.

 

According to the President of Nicaragua, it is now obvious that this is not a conflict between Russia and Ukraine, since “the United States is investing billions of dollars in the form of modern weapons.”

 

Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin called its goal “the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.” According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Russian Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage of the special operation – they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was the liberation of Donbass. On April 19, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced the start of the next phase of the special operation.

 

Volnovakha, a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk, and Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov, have been liberated in the DPR. In the LPR, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, as of March 25, 93% of the former Luhansk region, within whose borders a republic was proclaimed, had been liberated. 

 

Basma Qaddour