He asserts that Ukraine started a war in 2014 and criticizes the fact that the West did not pay attention to the civilian deaths in Donbass at the time
MADRID, 5 (EUROPA PRESS)
Russian President Vladimir Putin asserted on Thursday that Moscow was not the one who started “the so-called war in Ukraine” but was trying to put an end to a “coup d’etat” carried out in Kiev. in 2014 in reference to Euromaidan and the entry of pro-European politicians into the Ukrainian government.
“It was not us who organized the coup in Kiev in 2014: a bloody and unconstitutional coup,” emphasized the Russian president, also taking the opportunity to attack the Western media for spreading a version that was not it corresponded to the reality of this episode.
He emphasized that in 2014 Russia was committed to the security of the Crimean population, against whom Kiev was trying to carry out “ethnic cleansing in the spirit of the Nazis”; and has claimed that it was not Moscow that launched attacks against Donbas, nor did it attempt to prevent that population from speaking their native language.
“You know what happened: for nine years they bombed, shot and used tanks. A war was started against Donbas (…) And no one counted the dead children. Nobody in the West cried for the dead,” Putin said during his intervention at the Valdai International Debate Club in Russia.
“The war started by the Kiev regime with the active and direct support of the West is now in its tenth year, and a special military operation is aimed at stopping it,” Putin added, who also stressed that unilateral actions “will inevitably be met with retaliation.” .”
At this point he accused the Western powers of having lost “their sense of reality” and clarified that the war in Ukraine was “not a territorial conflict” but a “larger and more fundamental” matter, since they “reject the principles on which the new world order will be based.
“Durable peace will be established only when everyone begins to feel safe, to understand that their opinion is respected and that there is balance in the world,” said the Russian leader, who on this point is the “cruel legacy of the century “XX” recognized the differentiation of Russia and the West into “us and them”.
“This is a product of Western political culture, at least its most aggressive forms. I repeat, the West always needs an enemy,” lamented Putin, who believes that these powers “need an enemy whose struggle can explain the need for action.” powerful and an extension”.
In this sense, the Russian president also sees the Western powers forced to find culprits to blame for their internal problems and social criticism of a system that “the majority of citizens do not want to accept.” “Russia is the favorite topic of these politicians,” he emphasized.
“Russia was, is and will be one of the foundations of the world system, ready for constructive interaction with all those fighting for peace and prosperity, ready for tough resistance to those who profess the principles of dictatorship and violence,” the said Russian president is done.