{"id":158647,"date":"2023-02-21T06:23:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T12:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/putin-not-backing-down-on-ukraine-insists-west-is-at-fault"},"modified":"2023-02-21T06:23:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T12:23:38","slug":"putin-not-backing-down-on-ukraine-insists-west-is-at-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/putin-not-backing-down-on-ukraine-insists-west-is-at-fault","title":{"rendered":"Putin not backing down on Ukraine, insists West is at fault"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Putin also said that Russia would suspend its participation in a treaty aimed at keeping a lid on nuclear weapons expansion. The so-called New START Treaty was signed by Russia and the U.S. in 2010. It caps the number of long-range nuclear warheads they can deploy and limits the use of missiles that can carry atomic weapons.<\/p>\n

Putin said Tuesday in a major address that Russia was not fully withdrawing from the treaty yet. He said Russia must stand ready to resume nuclear weapons tests if the US does so.<\/p>\n

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Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Western countries Tuesday of igniting and sustaining the war in Ukraine, refusing any blame for Moscow almost a year after the Kremlin\u2019s invasion of its neighbor<\/a> that has killed tens of thousands of people.<\/p>\n

In his long-delayed state-of-the-nation address, Putin cast his country \u2014 and Ukraine \u2014 as victims of Western double-dealing and said it was Russia, not Ukraine, fighting for its very existence.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe aren\u2019t fighting the Ukrainian people,\u201d Putin said in a speech days before the war\u2019s first anniversary on Friday<\/a>. Ukraine \u201chas become hostage of the Kyiv regime and its Western masters, which have effectively occupied the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

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