MOSCOW, February 21. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the West over the past decades has "let the genie out of the bottle" and plunged entire regions into chaos.

"At a recent conference in Munich, there were endless charges addressed to Russia. It seems that this was done only to make everyone forget what the West has done in recent decades. They let the genie out of the bottle. They plunged entire regions into chaos," he said in a message to the Federal Assembly on Tuesday.

"According to estimates by US military experts, as a result of wars - I wish to draw attention to this: we didn’t invent these figures, it is the Americans’ own calculations - as a result of the wars that the United States has unleashed since 2001, almost 900 thousand people have lost their lives and more than 38 million became refugees. Now they are trying to erase all this from the memory of humanity, pretending that nothing like that ever happened. But no one in the world has forgotten this," Putin stressed.