Vladimir Putin justifies a “preventive” war against Ukraine

The invasion of Ukraine was “a forced and timely decision”but above all, “the only good one to take”, according to Vladimir Putin. During his May 9 speech in Moscow, the Russian president justified “special military operation” carried out by his army against Ukraine since February 24.

According to the Kremlin strongman, “kyiv has announced a possible acquisition of nuclear weapons”, and the NATO bloc has mobilized to represent “an absolutely unacceptable threat” for the security of his country. Sending his troops to Ukraine was therefore, according to Vladimir Putin, the answer “of a sovereign, strong and independent country”. Faced with what he considers to be threats from NATO, the Russian president believes that his country “preemptively repelled the attack”.