According to the Russian Satellite News Agency, Russia's Putin said in an interview on the 17th local time that Russia has no intention of going to war with NATO countries, but NATO has artificially created problems. In response to Finland's accession to NATO, Russia will establish the Leningrad Military District to strengthen its military.
Russia** Putin: We have the most friendly and sincere relations with Finland, and the problems of the past have long been resolved, but now new problems will arise. Therefore, we will set up the Leningrad Military District and concentrate a certain amount of military forces there, and we, like other NATO countries, do not have any problems between countries, but NATO "artificially creates problems", because NATO does not want Russia as a competitor.
Leningrad Oblast is located in northwestern Russia, bordering the Gulf of Finland and bordering Finland and Estonia.
Putin: In the early years, there were "naïve" ideas about the West.
Putin said that in the early years he had thought that the West would no longer have a serious confrontation with Russia over ideological differences, but his idea turned out to be "naïve".
Russia** Putin: I naively thought at the time that what the West was doing against Russia was an inertia in thinking and action, but this was a naïve idea, and the truth is that they thought that after the collapse of the USSR they needed to wait for a while, and then let Russia completely collapse.
*: CCTV news client.