Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega justified the Russian military invasion of Ukraine by assuring that Vladimir Putin’s regime “is waging a battle for peace.” The Sandinista leader’s statements were made yesterday, April 19, during a meeting with Moscow Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in Managua.
Fourteen months ago, Moscow launched a war against Ukraine, the latest military action in times of world peace. Putin’s decision has been rejected by the international community, which has imposed a series of sanctions against the Russian regime.
Since day one of the Russian war, the Managua regime has expressed its approval and support for the military invasion of Ukraine, which has resisted attacks by the armed forces of the Russian Federation for more than 14 months.
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“The Russian Federation is waging a battle for peace, against the fascists, the Nazis who carried out a coup d’état there in Ukraine 16 years ago, entered there and the sons of Hitler are the ones who are ruling there,” Ortega said during the meeting.
“The Nazis during the war managed to install a large force and then they began to make war on the Russians, to persecute the Russians born in those lands, to kill and culminated in the coup,” he added.
The Nicaraguan dictator placed the Russian regime as a victim of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) by indicating that “it is harassing Russia, surrounding it with more weapons, more bases.” In addition, he accused the United States of being “directing the orchestra of international terrorists.”
“Russia is experiencing a tough, difficult, painful situation with the death of young Russians falling in combat, young Ukrainians who are falling in combat and we want peace as Russia wants it, as the peoples of the world want it,” Ortega said. .
