Putin: In Ukraine, people who are ready to build relations with Russia are being eliminated

23.12.2021, Moscow.

It is practically impossible to build good-neighborly relations with the current leadership of Ukraine because those who are willing to work with Russia are simply being killed there, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a press conference on December 23.

“We are ready to work with those forces that would like to build relations with Russia in a good neighborly way,” the Russian president said. At the same time, he pointed out what is happening in Ukraine “with these forces: extrajudicial killings, sanctions against its citizens, which contradicts the laws, the constitution of Ukraine, or simply murders in the street. No one is searching the killers.”

The Russian president stressed that Moscow goes to almost any friendly gesture in its attempts to build good neighborly relations with Kiev. “But how can one build relations with today’s leadership? Taking into account what they are doing? Practically impossible,” Putin pointed out.

Speaking about incumbent Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, the Russian leader noted that instead of taking into account people’s demand for peaceful relations with Russia and taking advantage of such sentiments in Ukrainian society, Zelensky is under the influence of radicals, “As they say in Ukraine – ‘Nazis’.”

After the 2014 coup d’état in Kiev, nationalist groups came to power. Their bloody actions against their own population in the southeast of the country led to protests in those regions. Under the influence of protest sentiments, a referendum was held in Crimea, as a result of which the peninsula returned to Russia; in a number of other regions, formed militias launched armed resistance to acts of destruction carried out by radical nationalists and the use of heavy equipment and aircraft of the regular Ukrainian army against civilians.

In Donbass, the resistance escalated into a still unresolved conflict with the use of heavy equipment and other modern weapon systems. In 2015, the second Minsk agreement on the settlement of the armed conflict in southeastern Ukraine was concluded, providing for the mutual withdrawal of weapons from the line of contact.

Contrary to the agreements, Kiev has transferred half of its army personnel to the region and is regularly shelling the region with equipment prohibited by the agreements. At the same time, the United States and NATO countries support Kiev by conducting joint exercises and supplying various weapons to the army.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with US President Biden in early December that NATO’s offensive weapons in Ukraine would be considered a crossing of “red lines” in relations between Russia and Western countries.

Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency

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