On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin defended his Ukrainian offensive and accused the West for launching three and a half years a war that killed tens of thousands and destroyed much of Eastern Ukraine.
“This crisis was not caused by a Russian attack on Ukraine, but was the result of a coup in Ukraine that supported and provoked the West,” Putin said at the peak of the Shanghai cooperation (SCO) in Tianjin, China.
Putin referred to the pro -European revolution of Ukraine 2013–2014, which excluded the pro -Russian president.
Moscow then responded by connecting Pyrensula Crimea and supporting pro -Russian separatists in the east and provoking a civil war.
“The second reason for the crisis is the constant attempts of the West to drag Ukraine to NATO,” the Russian president said.
Putin spoke to the SCO summit, attended by Russian allies, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Prime Minister of Narendra Modi and Iranian President Masoud PezeShkian.
Moscow and Beijing offered Scoco as an alternative to Western political and security blocks, including NATO.
Putin said the world needed “a system that would replace obsolete Eurocentric and Euro -Atlantic models and take into account the interests of the widest circle of countries”.
“We greatly appreciate the efforts and proposals of China, India and our other strategic partners aimed at contributing to solving the Ukrainian crisis,” he added.
Despite US President Donald Trump, he urged Moscow and Kyiv to achieve an agreement to end the war, the proposals of peace were repaired.
Putin rejected the challenges to the ceasefire and presented the hard territorial and political requirements – called for Ukraine to advance more territories and to give up Western support – as the prerequisites for peace.
Kyiv excluded them as non -warrons. The Russian leader said he would discuss diplomacy to end the conflict and his latest talks with Trump on a series of bilateral meetings.
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