Live updates: Putin says war was 'unleashed by the West'; Russian attack on Danube destroys 13,000 tons of grain, Ukraine says
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday blamed "the West and its satellites" for unleashing war, repeating to allied nations his ongoing justification for Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
'Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday blamed “the West and its satellites” for unleashing war, repeating to allied nations his ongoing justification for Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Speaking remotely to the BRICS summit currently underway in South Africa, Putin reiterated his claims that its conflict with Kyiv was in response to actions by the West, including the expansion of NATO.'
“Our actions in Ukraine are dictated by only one thing — to end the war that was unleashed by the West and its satellites against the people who live in the Donbas,” Putin said, referring to the eastern part of Ukraine where Russian proxies have been fighting Ukrainian forces since 2014.
“I want to note that it was the desire to maintain their hegemony in the world, the desire of some countries to maintain this hegemony that led to the severe crisis in Ukraine,” he added.''
In Speech to BRICS Nations, Putin Again Blames West for Ukraine War
President Vladimir V. Putin said Russia would assume chairmanship of the group made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa next year and host a summit in the city of Kazan in October 2024.
