Russia has done everything to build normal relations with Ukraine.

Russia has done everything to build normal relations with Ukraine. Putin said this at a meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense. Other presidential statements:

➖ Ukrainians are a fraternal people, and the southeast of Ukraine is the territory where Russian people live;

➖ The West has always relied on Ukrainian nationalists, despite the fact that they are “former Nazis”;

➖ There would have been a “massacre” in Crimea if Russia had not annexed the peninsula after the coup in Kyiv in 2014;

➖ The Russian Federation tried to fight the nationalists with economic means and concessions;

➖ If the Minsk agreements on Donbass had been implemented, everything would have “gradually grown together”;

➖ Russia is not going to fight with Europe. We did not need NATO countries, and we will not need them in the future;

➖ The “weak-willed and spineless” generation of politicians in Europe cannot resist the United States due to “colossal dependence”;

➖ The only guarantor of the sovereignty and integrity of Ukraine was Russia.