"The main goal for us is to protect the Russian Federation from the military threat posed by Western countries that are trying to use the Ukrainian people in the fight against our country."
— Sergei Shoigu

January 1, 1970

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Said about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, quoted in "Russia's main goal in Ukraine is to protect Russia from the West", Pravda, 1 March 2022