His comments were the first from Putin since he met French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the crisis in the Ukraine on Friday.
"There clearly is an attempt to restrain our development with different means. There is an attempt to freeze the existing world order ... with one incontestable leader who wants to remain as such thinking he is allowed everything while others are only allowed what he allows and only in his interests," Putin said.
"This world order will never suit Russia…But we are not going to wage war on anyone, we are going to cooperate will all," he said during a meeting with labor unions in the southern city of Sochi.
Kiev and the West accuse Moscow of fomenting pro-Russian rebellion in eastern Ukraine and supplying arms and fighters. Moscow denies the accusation.
Putin repeated that Western sanctions imposed on Russia in retaliation over its role in the Ukraine conflict would not work.
"Sanctions – in the end I think they will not bring joy to anyone and they clearly can't be efficient with regards to a country like ours although they are causing a certain damage to us. And we should understand this and increase our sovereignty level including in the economy," Putin said.
(The story was refiled to correct a quote in the third paragraph to change "perturb" to "freeze")
(Reporting by Denis Pinchuk; Writing by Maria Kiselyova; editing by Ralph Boulton and Doina Chiacu)
World Military and Police Forces
Overview
This is a small project dedicated to information on military and police forces from every nation around the world. This information has been gathered from numerous sources, unfortunately some of the numbers will be inaccurate in regards to the amount of soldiers, types of aircraft in service, etc. Whenever possible I will only use pictures of a nations military personnel and equipment on that nations page. You will not see a Russian soldier with an M-16 on the United States page or a U.S. Marine Harrier on the Spain page.
I will attempt to back up this information with actual photos.
Constantly updated
As more information comes in to me certain numbers will change. If I find something inaccurate or questionable, I will add, delete or put question marks next to the data. New weapons are bought, old weapons are decommissioned, so this blog will be constantly updated.
These files were originally intended for my own personnel use. I decided to back up my files by putting everything on the internet.
More pictures and information will be added soon.
Please click on the appropriate nation on the column to the right.
Unrecognized States
Click on the appropriate link below. The information on breakaway and unrecognized nations will be near the bottom of the page.
Abkhazia
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Northern Cyprus
Somaliland
South Ossetia
Transnistria
Western Sahara
