President of Russia, Vladimir Putinconfirmed on Tuesday that his country will put up with all “illegal sanctions and provocations” from abroad in the midst of a “hybrid war” against Moscow and expressed confidence that the Russian people would “resist”.

“In the current situation, our country continues to develop steadily. The Russian people are united as never before. Solidarity and high responsibility to the Motherland was demonstrated by Russian politics and society as a whole, becoming a united front against the armed rebellion led by the Wagner group, he said in his speech on the occasion of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit.

In this sense, he thanked his “colleagues” in the SCO, who “expressed support for the actions of the Russian leadership for the protection of the constitutional order, the life and security of citizens”. “We appreciate it,” Putin stressed, before warning that “increasing the military potential in the world”.

“Geopolitical contradictions are escalating all over the world and the degradation of security systems at the international level continues,” Putin said, warning that the risks of a “new global economic and financial crisis” are rising. due to the uncontrolled accumulation of debts of developed countries, social stratification and poverty.

He also recalled that Russia proposed to transform the regional anti-terrorist structure The SCO into a “universal center that responds to the full range of security threats,” the Russian chairmanship said in a statement.

Except, urged to speed up the entry of Belarus into the SCO, something that, according to him, will have a “positive impact on the activities of the association.” “We are convinced that the entry of Belarus, which is a close and strategic ally of Russia, will have a positive impact on the activities of the association,” he said.