Iran Press/ Europe: Putin said, "They devised these plans long ago. They encouraged groups of international terrorists in the Caucasus and moved NATO’s offensive infrastructure close to our borders. They used indiscriminate Russophobia as a weapon, including by nurturing the hatred of Russia for decades, primarily in Ukraine, which was designed to become an anti-Russia bridgehead.
They turned the Ukrainian people into cannon fodder and pushed them into a war with Russia, which they unleashed back in 2014. They used the army against civilians and organized a genocide, blockade, and terror against those who refused to recognize the government created in Ukraine due to a state coup."
"After the start of the special military operation, in particular after the Istanbul talks, Kyiv representatives voiced quite a positive response to our proposals. These proposals concerned, above all, ensuring Russia’s security and interests. But a peaceful settlement obviously did not suit the West, which is why, after certain compromises were coordinated, Kyiv was actually ordered to wreck all these agreements," Mr. Putin disclosed.
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"More weapons were pumped into Ukraine. He said that the Kyiv regime brought new groups of foreign mercenaries and nationalists, military units trained according to NATO standards and receiving orders from Western advisers.
"At the same time, the regime of reprisals throughout Ukraine against their own citizens, established immediately after the armed coup in 2014, was harshly intensified. The intimidation, terror, and violence policy is taking on increasingly mass-scale, horrific, and barbaric forms," the Russian president noted.
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