“The West is trying by all means to maintain its dominance, the Ukrainian people have become a victim of these efforts.” This was stated by Vladimir Putin in a video address to the participants of the meeting of defense ministers of the CIS countries and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. «Today we see the serious consequences of such actions in Ukraine. For several years the West has shamelessly embezzled and exploited its resources, encouraged genocide and terror in the Donbass, turned Ukraine into a virtual colony and is now cynically using the Ukrainian people as cannon fodder, as a battering ram against Russia, so on Ukraine with arms and ammunition supplying and sending mercenaries puts them on a suicidal path,” he said in the message released by Russian authorities.
