Putin says that Borrell would have fought on the Francoist side in the Civil War

The Russian president responds to an intervention by the head of European diplomacy on the war in Ukraine Borrell described Russia as a “fascist regime”, according to the English translation of his speech in Spanish Community authorities have pointed out that Borrell did not say exactly “what is heard in translation “Russian President Vladimir Putin has lashed out at the European Union’s representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, for his stance on the war in Ukraine. Specifically, for a speech he gave in Spanish about European support for kyiv and sanctions against Moscow, which he described -according to the English translation- as a “fascist regime.” “If he (Borrell) lived in the 1930s, as Spanish that he is, in Spain and heard in the weather forecast the well-known sacramental phrase ‘in all of Spain the sky is clear’, which was a signal for the start of the coup d’état by General Franco, he would take up arms, but on which side would he fight?” Putin said at the VII Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. “In my opinion, he would be on the side of the coup plotters, because today he supports the same coup plotters on the territory of Ukraine,” said the Russian president. Putin added that ” the main source of power in Ukraine is the 2014 coup”; This is how Russia describes the Maidan protests that led to the fall of the then Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych. The Russian president thus responded to the intervention of the head of European diplomacy at the Interparliamentary Conference for Common Foreign and Security Policy in Prague . Borrell said, according to the translation of his words from Spanish to English, that “we do not have, at the moment, a concrete plan on how to defeat fascist Russia and its fascist regime.” However, the Community Executive’s foreign spokesman, Peter Stano told the official TASS agency that the EC has verified Borrell’s words and that he “has not said the words that are heard in the translation,” reports EFE. According to his statements, “the high representative has not called Russia that (fascist). What he did was mention the statement of one of the members of Parliament who used this expression.”