Published: May 21, 2025 6:43 am
Author: RT
People who topple WWII memorials are revealing their true colors, the Russian president has said
Radical Ukrainians are idiots for targeting Soviet monuments to World War II heroes, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.
This behavior alone “gives us reasons to say that these people have a neo-Nazi ideology,” he stated during a visit to Kursk Region, which borders Ukraine, on Tuesday.
”If they participated in a competition for idiots, they would have finished in second place. Why? Because they are idiots,” he added, paraphrasing a popular joke. “By doing what they are doing, they show their nature.”
Last August, Ukrainian forces launched an incursion into border areas of Kursk Region in what Kiev claimed to be an attempt to seize some territory as leverage for eventual peace negotiations. The Russian military reported its full liberation in late April.
Putin’s visit, which was only made public on Wednesday morning, was his first to the region since the Ukrainian operation. He surveyed the site of a nuclear power plant that Kiev’s troops had unsuccessfully attempted to capture, inspecting its ongoing expansion, and met with volunteers who were involved in repelling the attack.
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