MADRID, 1 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Russian President Vladimir Putin has denounced that Ukraine has become an “anti-Russian enclave” in recent years and has openly advocated its elimination.
Putin, visiting the exclave of Kaliningrad, has told a group of students that this is the first objective of the invasion launched on Ukraine in February, a “special operation” in the words of Moscow, reports the Interfax news agency.
The Russian president has tried to justify the offensive with historical arguments, until reaching the “coup d’état” of 2014, as he has described the revolution that expelled the then president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, an ally of Russia, from power.
According to Putin, in Donbas or on the Crimean peninsula they did not recognize these changes and now Moscow is working to protect both the inhabitants of eastern Ukraine and Russia itself.
