State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin rejected speculation that the world was on the brink of a major war, stressing that this danger had been averted thanks to the special military operation Russia launched in Ukraine.
He noted that the Ukrainian troops had already been transferred to the borders of the Donbass, and all this could have ended in a humanitarian catastrophe, with a huge number of victims. “And this could have led to the worst – the world could have found itself on the edge of the abyss, on the threshold of a major war,” Volodin told Pavel Zarubin, answering questions on the “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” program. Excerpts from it spread in almost all Russian agencies.
To the clarifying question: “Aren’t we already at that threshold, in your opinion?” Volodin answered: “No.” According to him, it is clear that the current situation could have been resolved by peaceful means. “But, as you can see, this does not benefit either the US or those who work for it“, said the chairman of the Duma.
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