Vladimir Putin has said that he believes the Ukrainian President will flee and that some political leaders “have already fled abroad.”
Putin said during his annual press conference, “I don’t think that [political asylum] will be needed.
“I don’t know what he will do, but it is quite likely that, just like some other members of Ukraine’s political leadership that have already fled abroad, he will leave Ukraine as well.”
“But he will be taken care of by those people whose interests he is serving now,” he added.
He said, “Russia rejects no one.
“If, like a jack-in-the-box, he pops up here unexpectedly and says that he needs asylum, well, Russia rejects no one.”
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Putin then said that Russia should have launched their so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine earlier.
The Russian dictator said, “Looking back, knowing what we know now, I think the decision we made in early 2022 should have been made sooner.
And secondly, in hindsight, we should have begun preparing for the special military operation even sooner still.”
Speaking about the events in 2014 when Putin illegal annexed Crimea he said, “the 2022 developments began without special preparations. Why did we begin them? Because we could not sit around and watch the situation deteriorate further.”
He said that Kyiv suggested that they potentially have “weapons of mass destruction” and that following Crimea they would not implement the Minsk agreement.
Putin said, “The war in Donbass, the carnage continued for eight years. Nothing was happening, the Minsk agreements were rejected.
“Moreover, we saw that they had begun building military infrastructure in these territories, concurrently seeking to uproot everything linked with Russia.”
He added that Russia would not tolerate this anymore, “We were forced to do this. If we knew beforehand what would happen, we should have seriously prepared. I would have taken this into account.”
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