The alliance has also approved membership applications from Finland and Sweden and announced a massive boost in troop numbers along its eastern flank. But speaking during a visit to Turkmenistan, the Russian president blasted the West’s attitude. “The leading countries of NATO want (…) to assert their hegemony, their imperial ambitions,” he said. “The call for Ukraine to continue fighting and refuse negotiations only confirms our assumption that Ukraine and the good of the Ukrainian people is not the goal of the West and NATO, but a means to defend their own interests,” the Russian leader added. Is the war in Ukraine aimed to benefit the west/ NATO ?
