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Putin said that he hopes Western leaders have "enough wisdom" to avoid direct military confrontation with Russia.
According to the Russian Today (RT) TV website on the 14th, on the same day, after Kazakhstan's attendance at the Central Asia-Russia summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, Russian President Putin warned that allowing NATO troops to "contact" directly with the Russian army would be a stupid step and could lead to "global disaster."
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When asked whether NATO would send troops to Ukraine if Ukraine was close to failure in its conflict with Russia, Putin said that this would be a "risk step that could lead to global disasters" and "I hope those who talk about it have enough wisdom to prevent such dangerous steps from happening."
Putin also responded that in the context of the Ukrainian crisis, it is necessary to understand the meaning of the word "failure". "Everyone has a different understanding," he explained, and some people may have seen that Crimea "the vote to be part of Russia in 2014 was a failure of Ukraine," and "we need to understand what failure means".
