According to President Vladimir Putin, Russia does not rule out rapprochement with Europe again, wrote the DPA agency, informs TASR. The head of the Kremlin said at Tuesday’s meeting of the Russian Security Council that it is clear that relations with Europe are currently in crisis. “We have never rejected the development of these relations, their re-establishment,” declared Putin.
- Vladimir Putin admits the possibility of a future rapprochement between Russia and Europe.
- Putin calls the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych a coup d’état supported by the West.
- The annexation of Crimea and the conflict in eastern Ukraine followed the Kiev coup.
- In 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine and the front remains deadlocked years later.
- German Minister Wadephul promises Ukraine unrelenting support against Russian aggression.
The Russian president repeatedly sees the cause of the split in the overthrow of pro-Moscow Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. It happened after mass protests in 2014. In this context, Putin spoke about the coup d’état, which was supported by the United States and several European countries, which, according to him, was the beginning of “a chain of tragic events that are taking place in Ukraine to this day.”
Putin responded to the power vacuum in Kyiv by annexing the Crimean peninsula and starting a military operation in eastern Ukraine. In 2022, he ordered an invasion of the neighboring country, which remains in a military stalemate four years later, with Moscow clinging to its war aims and rejecting Europe’s participation in a peace settlement. reminded DPA.
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul promised Ukraine support in the fight against Russian aggression. On the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the liberation of the Ukrainian city of Bucha from Russian occupation and the discovery of hundreds of bodies of murdered people, he warned on Tuesday that when Putin reaches the conclusion in Ukraine that aggressive wars pay off, more will follow.
At the same time, Wadephul pointed out that the head of the Kremlin cannot profit from the current escalation in the Middle East. “When the Russian president hopes that supporters of Ukraine will turn away from it, we will not do him this favor,” he quotes the words of the head of German diplomacy, DPA.
