SOCHI, October 18. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has described as reckless and immoral some countries’ policies aimed at ruining the regimes they dislike or dictating one’s will to them. He was speaking at a full-scale meeting of the international discussion club Valdai on Thursday.

"This or that country’s regime may be liked by some and disliked by others, but acting in this fashion, ruining the existing regimes without offering anything in exchange, or proposing something that by virtue of certain historical features is unacceptable or impossible to implement is an absolutely reckless and immoral policy that yields the gravest results," he said.

Putin recalled that the US invasion of Iraq caused the terrorist threat to soar, while the institutions of the state weakened.

"Libya as a state ceased to exist altogether. Separate armed groups are fighting against each other. It’s disaster. Muamar Gaddafi (the Libyan leader killed in 2011 - TASS) used to say that Libya was an insurmountable obstacle in the way of refugees and immigrants from Africa to Europe. ‘What are you doing?’ he said. ‘You are ruining that wall.’ It has been ruined. And this is precisely what is happening. Now they are looking for those responsible. They are to blame themselves," Putin said.

He explained that Russia’s policy to avoid intervention in the internal policies of other countries.

"Possibly, we may support somebody without intervening directly in the internal affairs of other countries, but any country’s internal development must remain the basis. True, this requires patience and delicate attitude to the situation, but it cannot be different. Any different mode of action - dictating from outside - entails the gravest effects, the way it happened in Libya and Iraq. This is a result of monopolism and monopolar world that some tried to create," he said.