The approach of Russian President Vladimir Putin to war in Ukraine is concerned, said Finland President Sauli Ninistu, comparing Putin’s approach with a wa-bank in Pokre without the opportunity to win.
“After the results (the so -called” referendums “about the annexation of Russia four regions of Ukraine), Putin said that these territories will forever remain in Russia. I interpreted this so that he tried his best to go to war, speaking of” eternal “. He played poker and set everything on Kon … We are dealing with a person who goes to anything – without a chance to win everything. How can you perceive defeat if you lost when you have already put everything on the con?” – said Ninisto in an interview with Dagens Nyher.
He noted that Russia is fighting against the civilian population: “This is a war against infrastructure and ordinary people … We are now a full -scale war. And, perhaps, the worst that this is not the end,” said the president of Finland.
In his opinion, Vladimir Putin made the same mistake as Joseph Stalin when planning the Soviet-Finnish war: he counted on the quick and successful completion of military operations, underestimating the determination of the warring side.
Ninisto expressed the opinion that the Russian president decided to “not pay attention” to the entry of Finland to NATO, so as not to recognize the presence of a “new problem” in Northern Europe: “What you did, of course, is wrong … But this is not And so worries, ”he said.