The guy they dumped was a Russian puppet. I think that was the "Orange Revolution." Then they held (kinda honest) elections. Zelensky was a comedian before becoming president.
[Regnum] In the West they often say that Russia started the conflict in Ukraine, but no one in the West likes to remember how the tragedy of this country began, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on June 5 in St. Petersburg at a meeting with the heads of international news agencies.
The conflict began with the anti-constitutional coup that took place in Ukraine in 2014, the president emphasized. The United States provoked the seizure of power in Ukraine through unconstitutional means, he noted.
“Everyone believes that Russia started a war on Ukraine. But no one - I want to emphasize this - no one in the West, in Europe, wants to remember how this tragedy began. It began with a coup d'etat in Ukraine - an unconstitutional coup d'etat. This is the beginning of the war,” Putin noted.
After 2014, Russia made every possible attempt to resolve the conflict peacefully, but, as Western politicians later confirmed, they did not intend to implement the Minsk peace agreements, the president recalled. Russia was “simply led by the nose,” Putin said.
Like a bullying husband standing over his beaten bloody wife: "Look what you made me do!"
The meeting of the president with agency heads took place on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), which takes place from June 5 to 8, 2024. The main topic will be “The basis of a multipolar world—the formation of new growth points.” Advisor to the President, Executive Secretary of the SPIEF Organizing Committee Anton Kobyakov reported on May 31 that 136 countries and territories have confirmed their participation in SPIEF.
Russia notes a significant change in global conditions and stands for business cooperation based on law and on mutually beneficial conditions, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on June 5, answering the question about the ideology of the forum in 2024.
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The US must stop supplying Ukraine with weapons, the conflict will end - Putin
The US authorities must stop supplying weapons to the Kyiv regime, and in this case the conflict will end in 2-3 months. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, answering a corresponding question from the editor-in-chief of the news service for Europe and Africa of the AR (USA) James Jordan on June 5 during a meeting with the heads of international news agencies.
The Russian leader said that in response to a letter from American President Joe Biden, he wrote some time ago that if the United States wants to stop hostilities in Ukraine, they should stop supplying weapons.
“The actions will cease within two, maximum three, months. That’s all,” Putin explained, adding that his opinion on this issue has not changed.
As Regnum reported, the Russian military destroyed a truck carrying Western missiles for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in early June in the Nikolaev region, reported Sergei Lebedev, a representative of the pro-Russian underground, on June 5.
Russia's losses during the conflict in Ukraine are several times less than the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin said on June 5 at a meeting with the heads of world news agencies.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops destroyed warehouses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces group “Khortitsa” and militants of the “Foreign Legion”, and also hit a storage site for unmanned boats, said the official representative of the department, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov.