MOSCOW, December 7. /TASS/. The war in Ukraine was started by those who seized power in that country after the coup d’etat in 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with members of the Civil Society and Human Rights Council on Wednesday.
“The war was not started, and you know this much better than anyone else, by us, but [it was unleashed] in 2014 after the coup in Ukraine,” he told Kirill Vyshinsky, chairman of the Council’s standing commission on international cooperation in human rights.
“It was unleashed by the then Ukrainian authorities, who came to the corridors of power through that coup d’etat, to suppress the will of people living in Donbass,” he added.
“When, back in 2014, three foreign ministers - from Poland, Germany and France - came to Kiev and put their signatures on the document between the then incumbent authorities and the opposition, they signed it as the guarantors of a peaceful scenario,” Putin recalled.
“After the coup d’etat was carried out, those guarantors forgot that they were the guarantors. As guarantors, they should have returned everything to the rule of law and have urged everyone to hold general elections to find a peaceful solution to that internal political crisis,” he said.
“No, nothing has been done as if everyone has forgotten about that document. Now when I remind my counterparts, even in our telephone conversations, about it, everyone stays silent, because there is nothing to answer,” the Russian president stressed.
War in Ukraine unleashed solely by the Kiev regime in 2014, not Russia, Putin clarifies
It was also mentioned that when, back in 2014, three foreign ministers - from Poland, Germany and France - came to Kiev and put their signatures under the document between the then incumbent authorities and the opposition, they signed it as the guarantors of a peaceful scenario