Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a conversation with the Chancellor of Germany Olaf Sholts, indicated that “the Russian armed forces refrained for a long time from point missile strikes on targets in Ukraine,” but “now it has become a forced and inevitable response in response to the provocations of Kyiv”, The Kremlin press service reports.
Putin in a conversation also called on Germany to “reconsider his approaches in the context of Ukrainian events.”
He also drew attention to “the destructive line of the Western states, including Germany, which pumps the Kyiv regime with weapons, who prepare the Ukrainian military,” which, according to Putin, “all this, as well as comprehensive political and financial support of Ukraine, leads to that. that Kyiv completely discards the idea of any negotiations. “