⚡️Putin: radicals and nationalists take credit for Ukraine's independence but they have nothing to do with it
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⚡️ Putin: Despite injustice and deceit, Russian people recognised states after collapse of Soviet Union and helped CIS countries, including Ukraine
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❗️ Russia fully paid off Ukraine's debts but Kiev refused to comply with agreements on return of property, Putin says
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⚡️ Putin: Ukraine never had its true statehood, copying model instead
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❗️ Putin: Parasitic attitude took over partnership in Ukraine-Russia relations
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❗️ Putin: radicals who seized power in Ukraine organized terror, a series of unpunished murders took place, people in Odessa were brutally murdered, but the criminals were not punished - we know them by name and will do everything to punish them
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❗️ Corruption in Ukraine corroded Ukrainian statehood, nationalists took advantage of this in 2014 with support of West, Putin says
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❗️ Kiev tried to use dialogue with Russia for bargaining with the West, from very beginning began to build statehood on contradictions, Putin said
❗️ Putin: Power of 'patriots' in Ukraine lost its national character, leads to de-sovereignisation of country
⚡️ The Russian language is being removed from all public spheres in Ukraine, says Putin
⚡️⚡️Putin: they want to organize an underground in Donbass, and organize military operations against Russia
❗️ Putin: Ukraine plans to unleash a war against Russians in Donbass
⚡️⚡️Putin: Ukraine's constitution does not allow foreign military bases, but they bypassed that law, they call the base a NATO mission
⚡️ Putin: America used Ukraine and Georgia to carry out anti-Russian policies
❗️Putin: Russia is again asked to believe that NATO is a peace union
⚡️ Putin: Kiev has long proclaimed course toward NATO but there's principle in int'l docs not to strengthen security at others' expense
❗️ Command of armed forces of Ukraine can directly come from NATO headquarters, says Putin
⚡️ US does not need such a big country as Russia in NATO, says Putin