Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA Novosti] A clash with the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine was inevitable, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting marking the decade of the re-establishment of the Russian Historical and Russian Military Historical Societies.
“If we hadn’t taken appropriate actions in February, everything would have been the same, only from a worse position for us. The situation in Ukraine was brought by her so-called friends to the stage when it became deadly for Russia and suicidal for itself. ” Ukrainian people.
And we can see this even by the nature of the hostilities: it’s just amazing what is happening there, in general, as if Ukrainians do not exist, they are thrown into a furnace and that’s it," he said.
At the same time, Russia has always treated Ukraine and its people with respect and warmth,
| *cough* Holodomor *cough* |
and this is how it is now, despite the current tragic confrontation, Putin said.
He admitted that the events taking place in Ukraine are difficult and bitter, because, in fact, the confrontation is going on within one people.
| Kinda like the Americans and the Canadians, eh? |
The same thing happened after the upheavals of 1917, when people were played off, and foreign powers warmed their hands on the tragedy of the people, the president added.
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