MOSCOW, March 16. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin considers "moral degeneracy, complete dehumanization" the Western silence on the victims in Donbass.

According to the Russian leader, it astounds how the West "did not even notice" the tragedy in Donetsk, when a missile attack was launched on the city center on March 14, killing more than 20 people.

"It is also hypocritical that they have turned a blind eye to the last eight years, when mothers in Donbass buried their children, when old people were killed. It's just some kind of moral degradation, complete dehumanization," Putin said.