Putin Calls West ‘Instigators’ of Conflict in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin sees Western countries as “initiators and instigators” of the conflict in Ukraine. “An armed coup – that’s where it all started. We were forced to protect the population of Crimea, and this way or another we ended up supporting Donbass. They pretend they had nothing to do with it. They are the initiators of this conflict and the instigators. And today they are handing over millions more munitions, hardware and so on,” the president said, answering questions from host Pavel Zarubin. Putin stressed that he had repeatedly spoken about this, adding that the former leadership of…