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Russian President Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin defended the Russian military offensive in Ukraine, accusing the West of triggering the conflict.
“This crisis was not triggered by Russia’s attack on Ukraine“It began by saying the president of Russia, during a summit on organized security in northeastern China.
“It is the result of a coup in Ukraine, which was supported and provoked by the West,” Putin said during the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Vladimir Putin.
The declaration on the “coup of state” refers to Maidan’s pro-chief protests, which in 2014 forced the fall of then-pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Following, Moscow attached the Crimea Peninsula and began to support separatist groups in eastern Ukraine, triggering a civil conflict.
Since then, the region has been in conflict; And one was triggered in February 2022, with the.
Putin accused the West of perpetuating this warfor the insistence on taking Ukraine to the born. “The second cause of the crisis is the constant attempts by the West to attract Ukraine to the NATO ”shot the Russian head of state.
Putin spoke this Sunday before his main allies: the Chinese president, Xi Jinpingthe Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modiand the Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian.
Peace proposals between Moscow and Kiev have failed. Putin has rejected a ceasefire, demanding that Ukraine gives more territory and renounce western support. Kiev refused, considering unacceptable demands.
