'All that we are doing today as part of the special military operation is an attempt to stop this war.' 9News
's Donbas, an eastern industrial region where Russia-backed separatists have battled Ukrainian forces since 2014.
Putin insisted again that Russia tried to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the separatist conflict before sending in troops, and said "we were just duped and cheated."He described Ukraine's east as Russia's "historic territories," adding that Moscow conceded their loss after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union but had to act to protect Russian speakers there.
Ukraine and its Western allies have rejected the rationale as a cover for an unprovoked act of aggression. Putin on Wednesday laid a wreath at the city's Piskaryov memorial cemetery, where 420,000 civilian victims of the siege and 70,000 Soviet soldiers were buried.
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