The current developments in Ukraine resulted from the policy of containment targeted against Russia, President Vladimir Putin said.
“We must understand clearly that the developments, provoked in Ukraine, are a concentrated manifestation of the notorious policy of containment,” Putin told ambassadors and permanent envoys in Moscow.
This policy is rooted “deeply in history.”
“Apparently and regrettably, it continued after the end of the Cold War,” Putin said.
“Our compatriots, Russian people, people of various ethnicity, and their language, history, culture and legitimate rights, guaranteed, by the way, by European conventions, are in jeopardy,” the Russian president said.
“What reaction were our partners expecting of us against the background of events unfolding in Ukraine?” Putin said.
Speaking about the international situation, Putin said, “We often see international law not working, the elementary norms of decency disregarded and the principle of all-permissiveness triumphing,” he said.
“Ukraine is an example of this,” Putin said
