Who Are The Leaders Who Support Vladimir Putin In The World

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to recognize the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in eastern Ukraine on Monday drew widespread revulsion from the international community.

From Europe and the United States, the implementation of a battery of sanctions was announced for considering that it violates international law.

But there are international personalities and governments that praised or supported Putin’s attitude in the Ukraine crisis, against the United States and NATO, thus distancing himself from the general norm of condemnation.

Although for the moment, most of these countries have not decided to follow Russia’s path of recognizing the self-proclaimed republics.

Cuba
The Cuban government aligned itself with Russia in the crisis it has with Ukraine and asked Western countries, and especially the United States, to stop intervening in that country and trying to impose the expansion of NATO.

“The determination of the United States to impose the progressive expansion of NATO towards the borders of the Russian Federation constitutes a threat to the national security of this country and to regional and international peace,” assured the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex). it’s a statement.

Havana stated that “the United States government has been threatening Russia for weeks and manipulating the international community about the dangers of an ‘imminent massive invasion’ of Ukraine.”

Donald Trump
Former US President Donald Trump praised Russian leader Vladimir Putin, calling his decision to recognize the independence of the two breakaway Donbass provinces in eastern Ukraine “great”.

“Here we have a guy who is very smart. I know him very well. Very, very well,” Trump said of Putin during an interview with a conservative radio show.

Then-President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Japan in June 2019. Photo: AFP

The former US president, who during his tenure always claimed to be on good terms with Putin, He stated that the current situation would never have happened if he were in the White House.

“I think he sees this opportunity. I knew that he had always wanted Ukraine. I used to talk to him about it. I told him: ‘You can’t do it, you’re not going to do it’, but I saw that he wanted it. (…) We used to talk about it in depth,” he said of his conversations with the Russian president.

Nicholas Maduro
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, accused the United States and NATO of wanting to “finish” Russia militarily, and reaffirmed all his support for the Eurasian country in the crisis with Ukraine.

“We have been attentively observing the events in Russia, in the Ukraine, observing not just now, the evolution of the process where the North American empire and NATO intend by military means to finish off Russia, stop Russia and put an end to this multipolar world that already it is a reality,” said the president in an act broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, another ally of Vladimir Putin. Photo: EFE

“The territory of Lugansk and Donetsk assumed the functions of people’s republics to defend themselves from a massacre that the fascist sectors that had seized power in Ukraine began to execute hunting men, assaulting families, bombing, with heavy weapons and a very harsh conflict began”, he added, although he did not clarify whether he recognizes those provinces as independent nations.

Daniel Ortega
The Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega, supported his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in the unilateral recognition of the pro-Russian separatist territories of Donetsk and Lugansk (eastern Ukraine), although he did not add Nicaragua to that initiative.

“President Putin has taken a step, where what he has done is recognize some republics that, since the 2014 coup d’état, did not recognize the coup governments (in Ukraine) and they established their government and have given battle” said Ortega, in an official act.

According to Ortega, the European Union (EU) and the United States “have been encircling and threatening Russia” since 2014, the year in which Moscow annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.

The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, this Monday, at a ceremony in Managua. Photo: EFE

Days ago, Russia’s deputy prime minister, Yuri Borisov, was in Managua and confirmed that Moscow will continue to support the Nicaraguan army.

Iran and Syria
The Iranian government joined the voices that support the Russian president and blamed the United States and NATO for the crisis in Ukraine and called for dialogue to reduce tension, after Russia recognized the two Ukrainian breakaway provinces.

Unfortunately, provocative actions by NATO, backed by the United States, have complicated the situation in the region, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Said Khatibzade said in a statement.

The Syrian government has been, for the moment, the only one to openly recognize the independence of the two breakaway provinces in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas.

The Syrian Foreign Minister, Faisal al Miqdad, already announced this Tuesday during an official visit to Moscow that his country supports Russia’s recognition of the self-proclaimed breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk.

Syria supports President Vladimir Putin’s decision to recognize the Lugansk and Donetsk republics, and will cooperate with them, Al Mikdad said during a conference organized by the Valdai Debate Club research center, according to the official Syrian news agency SANA.

Since 2015, Moscow has intervened militarily in Syria in favor of the government of Bashar al Assad.

Source: EFE

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