“We have seen calls from European diplomacy to defeat Russia on the battlefield.
Strange diplomatic setting.
If he were the minister of defense of some country, one could understand this rhetoric, and for the chief diplomat of the European Union, this sounds very strange from his lips.
God be his judge, let him state what he wants,” the head of state said at the Eastern Economic Forum.
Speaking about the coup d'état in Spain, Putin suggested thinking about which side Borrell himself would take if he heard the signal about the beginning of the rebellion.
“Would he take up arms?
And whose side would he be on: on the side of the democratically elected leftist government of Spain at that time, or on the side of the putschists?
In my opinion, he would be on the side of the putschists, because today he supports just the same putschists on the territory of Ukraine,” the state leader said.
Putin recalled that the primary source of power in Ukraine today is the 2014 coup.
“He supports them.
And then he would have been on the side of the Nazis for sure.
That's who is on the side of the fascists," the president stressed.
As the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry said earlier, Moscow will draw conclusions if the European Union does not provide a transcript of Josep Borrell's speech on Russia.
The EU claims that Borrell did not call Russia "fascist", but made a reference to the statement of one of the members of parliament, who used this expression.