Putin has issued a stark warning to European nations, declaring that any deployment of troops to Ukraine could be met with ‘conflict with Russia’.
IMAGE: Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with journalists on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in New Delhi, September 12, 2026. {Photograph}: Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Reuters
Key Factors
- Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that sending European troops to Ukraine would represent ‘conflict with Russia’.
- Putin said that Russia doesn’t threaten European nations and has no grounds for battle with Europe.
- He attributed present developments in Europe, together with the rise of the AfD in Germany, to ‘systemic errors’ by the West in politics, safety, and financial system.
- The Russia-Ukraine battle, which started in February 2022, has entered its fifth 12 months.
- Putin’s remarks had been made on the sidelines of the 2026 BRICS Summit in New Delhi.
Amid the continued battle with Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned European nations towards sending troops to Kyiv, clarifying that the nation doesn’t threaten European nations.
Talking to reporters in New Delhi on the sidelines of the 2026 BRICS Summit, Putin affirmed that sending troops to Ukraine will imply “conflict with Russia.”
Putin’s Warning on Ukraine
“There isn’t any such risk, and there has by no means been. We’re not threatening European nations, nor are we going to threaten them. Why would we? Nobody appears to even think about that we have now no grounds for any battle with Europe. All points had been settled on account of the Second World Conflict. And what occurred later, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, was achieved with the consent of the Russian Federation because the successor of the Soviet Union. Every thing that runs counter to these preparations runs counter to our pursuits and doesn’t adjust to the basic ideas of worldwide regulation and the UN Constitution,” Putin mentioned.
“Now they’re speaking about how they’re excited about bringing troops to the territory of Ukraine. This implies conflict with Russia,” the Russian President added.
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine started in February 2022, and has entered its fifth 12 months. Whereas a number of European nations have prolonged help to Ukraine, the US has tried a mediator position, holding talks between the 2 nations.
Earlier this month, US Particular Envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law of US President Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after their go to to Moscow.
Putin is in India to attend the 18th BRICS Summit.
Critique of Western Insurance policies
Commenting on the Various for Germany (AfD) surging in state elections in Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt, Putin mentioned that what is going on in Europe is the results of “systemic errors” by the West in politics, safety and the financial system.
“I believe that every part that’s now occurring in Europe as an entire is the results of systemic errors by the so-called West, or, extra exactly, by the West’s globalists, within the areas of politics, safety, and the financial system,” he mentioned.
“Everybody makes errors. Now we have made fairly a number of errors ourselves, as has the remainder of the world. However the issue for the West’s globalists is that, after the top of the Chilly Conflict and the collapse of the Soviet Union, they felt themselves to be on the ‘high of Olympus’ and apparently believed that: first, every part was permitted to them; and second, that they had been those who by no means make errors,” he added.
German Election Shock
Earlier in September, Germany’s far-right Various for Germany emerged as the most important occasion within the state election in Saxony-Anhalt, in line with exit polls, marking the primary time since World Conflict II {that a} far-right occasion has topped a state election within the nation.
The AfD has up to now by no means been a part of a governing coalition in any of Germany’s 16 states or on the federal stage. Mainstream political events have maintained a refusal to cooperate with the occasion, a political barrier generally known as the “firewall”.
The consequence can be a setback for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which completed a distant second in Saxony-Anhalt.
