Russian President, Vladimir Putin on Friday called for volunteers to help fight Ukrainian forces as the war entered its fifteenth day.
Putin stated that foreign forces who are willing to join forces with Russian troops to fight Ukraine are welcomed.
Putin made this known when he was speaking during a Russian security council meeting in Moscow on Friday.
The president spoke after the country’s Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu, said 16,000 volunteers in the Middle East were ready to join forces with Russia against Ukraine.
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‘If you see that there are these people who want of their own accord, not for money, to come to help the people living in Donbas, then we need to give them what they want and help them get to the conflict zone,’ Putin said.
Putin recently declared war on Ukraine over the Eastern European country’s decision to join NATO.
Despite several entreaties by the international community, Russia has continued to prosecute the war.
Africa Today News, New York reports that Putin had on Thursday warned that the continued sanctions being imposed by the West and her allies against Moscow for its military incursion in Ukraine would actually destabilise the global energy and food markets while also declaring that the country would emerge stronger from the crisis than expected.
Speaking on Thursday, Putin downplayed the massive sanctions, saying Moscow will find a way to ‘adapt’.
Speaking at a televised government meeting on the 15th day of Moscow’s advance into Ukraine, Putin said that Western sanctions on Moscow had begun to hurt the United States and Europe.
While the 69-year-old Kremlin chief has continued to maintain that Moscow was continuing to export oil and gas, including through conflict-torn Ukraine, he blamed the West for sky-rocketing energy prices.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK