Sánchez says that Putin's nuclear threat should not be "underestimated" but is committed to continuing to support Ukraine

The president sees Russia's latest actions as a demonstration that "it is not winning the war"

MADRID, 13 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has recognized that the nuclear threat of Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot be "underestimated", of whom he has said that he is "disoriented", but has made it clear that we must continue to support "the attacked" , Ukraine, facing the aggressor.

In his speech before the plenary session of Congress to discuss the last European summit in Prague, Sánchez maintained that Putin's threat to resort to nuclear weapons is something that "should not be underestimated but rejected".

The president has defended that the forcefulness of the sanctions adopted against Russia "allow us to affirm that Putin is not winning the war today, he is not fulfilling his war objectives."

In his opinion, the recent annexation of four Ukrainian regions through referendums that the international community will never recognize and the bombings of recent days against Ukrainian cities are aimed at "hiding the failure on the ground."

Sánchez has denounced the mass graves and the war crimes that the Russian forces are committing, which he has compared to those registered in the Balkan wars, the rapes of women and girls and "the indiscriminate bombing with the sole objective of destroying by destroy, destroy for the sake of destroying" as it has done in the past in Chechnya or Syria.

If anything demonstrates all of this, he added, it is "the flight forward of a disoriented regime" that has committed "the historical mistake that imperialism always makes, which is to underestimate the enemy, because no enemy is lesser", recalling the example of The United States in Vietnam or Russia in Afghanistan.

The President of the Government has made it clear that "Spain and Europe want peace, but until that moment arrives, we must continue to support the victim against the aggressor".

"In Putin's war, Spain sides with international legality, respect for national sovereignty, territorial integrity and the freedom of peoples to choose their future," he stressed.

The Government, he stressed, is committed to conflict resolution through dialogue and not through force, "in short, peace and not war, yesterday, today and always, whether in Iraq or Ukraine".