Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Western countries Tuesday of igniting and sustaining the war in Ukraine, dismissing any blame for Moscow almost a year after the Kremlin's unprovoked invasion of its neighbour that has killed tens of thousands of people.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Western countries Tuesday of igniting and sustaining the war in Ukraine, refusing any blame for Moscow almost a year after the Kremlin's invasion of its neighbour that has killed tens of thousands of people.
The war has revived the old Russia-West divide, reinvigorated the NATO alliance, and created the biggest threat to Putin's more than two-decade rule. U.S. President Joe Biden, fresh off a surprise visit to Kyiv, was in Poland on Tuesday on a mission to solidify that Western unity -- and planned his own speech.
In the speech, Putin offered his own version of recent history, which discounted arguments by the Ukrainian government that it needed Western help to thwart a Russian military takeover. "The life of civilians in the region has been turned into hell -- they're surviving under constant Russian fire without water and electricity," Ukrainian governor of the partially occupied Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said.
Likewise, he said Western sanctions would have no effect, saying they hadn't "achieved anything and will not achieve anything."
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