Putin: Countries Buying, Selling Oil from ’ISIL’ Extremists are Financing Terrorism, Will Backfire

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Russian President Vladimir Putin lashed out on Friday at the US and the West for destabilizing the world order of checks and balances for its own gains.

"Terrorists have been selling oil at really low prices and those countries who have been buying it and then selling it on, are financing terrorism, which will eventually come back to bite them," Putin said.

He said the US of destabilizing the world by trying to enforce its will on other countries.

Speaking with strong emotion, he said Washington has been "fighting against the results of its own policy'' in those countries.

Furthermore, he accused the US of making the world a more dangerous place by imposing a "unilateral diktat" in international diplomacy and denied Russia wanted to build a new empire. 

Putin also accused the US of trying to cast Russia as a danger to the rest of the world and forcing its allies to impose sanctions against Moscow over the Ukrainian crisis.

He said the sanctions aim to push Russia into isolation and will not succeed. 

Instead, he shifted blame for the crisis in Ukraine to the West and portrayed Russia as a strong power that would not be forced to beg the West to lift sanctions imposed over the conflict.

"Statements that Russia is trying to reinstate some sort of empire, that it is encroaching on the sovereignty of its neighbors, are groundless," Putin said. 

Warning that Washington was trying to "remake the whole world" around its own interests and that the risk of international conflicts was growing, he said: "We did not start this."

Moreover, dismissing the US and European Union [EU] sanctions on Russia as a mistake, he said: "Russia will not be posturing, get offended, ask someone for anything. Russia is self-sufficient."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team