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Putin explains why Ukraine attack went beyond Donbass
The Russian leader claims Moscow wanted to prevent the West from helping “nationalists”
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that he chose to attack Ukraine beyond the borders of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) to prevent the West from “endlessly” supplying “nationalists and radicals” with various resources, such as weapons and money. He added that the Russian forces were “practically done” destroying Ukrainian military sites, such as air defenses and weapons depots.
The president stated that he had ordered Russian troops to invade Ukraine last week in order to neutralize the “real threat” coming from Kiev and NATO. Moscow has long protested the Western military infrastructure along its borders and Ukraine’s aspirations to join the US-led bloc.
“They began to say more actively that they will admit [Ukraine] to NATO. What will this lead to? All other members of the alliance must back Ukraine in the case of a military conflict,” Putin said. “They will [attack] Crimea, and we will be forced to go to war with NATO. Do you understand the consequences?” The president stated that he wanted Ukraine to become a neutral country.
Crimea voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia shortly after the 2014 coup in Kiev. It was during that time that the DPR and LPR broke away from Ukraine.
“Let’s acquire nuclear weapons, they say [in Ukraine]. We can’t simply ignore it,” Putin said, referring to President Volodymyr Zelensky’s remark last month that Kiev might be forced to reconsider its status as a non-nuclear-weapons state.
We know that the US funded the coup which ousted Ukraine's legally-elected pro-Russian president
We know that the pro-Russian Ukrainians who voted for him formed two breakaway regions in the Donbass.
We know that the US fed its puppet government with weapons and we know that that government , along with its neo-Nazi factions, shelled those breakaway regions for eight years.
We know that over 14,000 people died.
We know that the Russians supported the Donbass regions, enabling them to defend themselves, thus creating a US/Russia conflict within Ukraine.
We know that the Russians saw this escalating as more US and NATO weaponry was delivered and the attacks on the Donbass became more intense.
We know that the Russians sought to end the conflict by having NATO agree to guarantee their security by backing off from Ukraine
We know that NATO refused.
Anybody seeing any anti-Russian mindset on NATO's part ?
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