Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday used a widely-watched speech to deny responsibility for the war in Ukraine and lash out at his adversaries.
region to speak their "own language" and had attempted to resolve the conflict peacefully.
He also cited the expansion of NATO and new European anti-rocket defense systems as provoking Russia. "We had no doubt that by February 2022, everything was prepared for a punitive action in Donbas, where [the] Kyiv regime provided artillery and aviation and other weapons to attack Donbas in 2014. In 2015, they attempted again to directly attack Donbas, they continued shelling, terror," he said.
"All of this was completely against the documents that were accepted by the United Nations Security Council. I would like to repeat: they started the war. And we used the force in order to stop it."
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