In 2007 in Munich, Putin actually declared war on the free world. Not everyone understood and appreciated the scale of the threat at that time.
Today, 17 years later, when hundreds of thousands of people in different countries have fallen at the hands of Putin's fascist regime, when many territories of sovereign states are occupied by Russian troops, when peaceful people of Ukraine are killed every day and Ukrainian towns and villages are destroyed, the goals and intentions of the Kremlin dictator are more than obvious. The totality of crimes committed under Putin's leadership and orders, in wars of aggression and inside Russia, have long made him an international criminal, and it is not without reason that the International Criminal Court has issued a warrant for his arrest.
Putin is a criminal and usurper also under Russian law, which he has trampled on. He has on his hands the blood of many Russians who aspired to a normal future for the country. Alexei Navalny has just been murdered in the dungeons, and the lives of many hundreds of political prisoners behind bars are at risk.
In these circumstances, the fact that presidents, parliaments and governments of civilized countries continue to legally and factually recognize Putin as president of the Russian Federation is no longer acceptable and intolerable. It is symbolic that it was in Munich today that the president of the embattled Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, said this. On behalf of the fighters on the front line, on behalf of the citizens of the country, which is daily bearing bloody sacrifices, on behalf of the living and the fallen, he called on the free world not only to non-recognize, but to eliminate the fascist dictatorship and its leader.
The Congress of People's Deputies, the Russian parliament in exile, has denied the legitimacy of the Putin regime since its inception.
We, Russian people's representatives elected in free democratic elections, appeal to citizens and leaders of civilized nations to support the President of Ukraine and reject the bogus procedure of reappointing Putin for another term. We consider it necessary that all the forces of true patriots of Russia, as well as the energy and capabilities of the citizens of the free world be directed to help Ukraine, to defeat the aggressors and occupiers and to completely eliminate Putin's fascist dictatorship.
Only such a course of action can bring peace to the long-suffering people of Ukraine and save other countries from the danger of repeating its fate. At the latest from the moment of the next "inauguration" the leaders of the anti-Putin coalition, usually called the "Ramstein group", should stop calling Putin "president", which he is not even according to the Russian law he has perverted, and if they talk to him, it is only and only about ending the war and transferring power to a transitional parliament and government that will be recognized by the international community.
For your and our freedom!