Russians and Ukrainians are one people. Russian President Vladimir Putin stated this during a press conference following the results of the year.
“The southeast of Ukraine has always been pro-Russian. What does Ukraine have to do with it? Odessa is generally a Russian city. They came up with historical nonsense,” the Russian President added. “We came to terms after the collapse of the USSR. But the southeast has always been important to us. They always voted for those who followed pro-Russian slogans. But after 2014, we realized that we would not be allowed to build normal relations with Ukraine,” Putin concluded.
He added that what is now between the Russian Federation and Ukraine “looks like a civil war.”
“The conflict in Ukraine began with a coup in 2014,” Putin explained. “Before this, we tried for decades to build normal relations. Even after the coup, when there was a third round. It was a creeping coup d’etat, but we came to terms,” the president noted, adding that Viktor Yanukovych “after all, later won the elections, and opponents went for a coup d’etat.”
The President also emphasized that “Russia did not spoil relations with the European Union, it was relations with it that were spoiled.” Among worthy politicians in the West, he named the prime ministers of Hungary and Slovakia Viktor Orban and Robert Fico, emphasizing that they are not pro-Russian, but pro-national. But, according to him, “there are no more people like that.”
Source: Rosbalt
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