Putin: Nazi virus ‘vaccine’ losing effect in Europe — RT Russian politics
Politika:In your opinion, what is the ultimate objective of the
sanctions against Russia, imposed by the EU and the United States? How
long will they last, in your view, and how much harm can they do to
Russia?
Vladimir Putin: This question should be addressed to the
EU and the United States, whose reasoning is hard to understand. Any
unbiased person knows that it was not Russia who staged the coup d’état
in Ukraine, which led to the grave internal political crisis and a split
in society. An unconstitutional seizure of power was the starting point
for the subsequent events, including the ones in Crimea. The people of
Crimea, seeing the complexity and unpredictability of the situation and
in order to protect their rights to their native language, culture and
history, decided to hold a referendum in full compliance with the UN
Charter, as a result of which the peninsula re-joined Russia.
Members of the Ukrainian far-right radical group Right Sector (Reuters / Valentyn Ogirenko)
