He noted that now almost not a single day goes by without shelling the settlements of Donbass.

“The so-called civilized world, of which our Western colleagues self-proclaimed to be the only representatives, prefers not to notice this.

As if there is nothing, all this horror, the genocide that almost 4 million people are subjected to, ”Putin said in his address.

According to him, this is happening because these people did not agree with the coup in Ukraine that took place in 2014.

Earlier, Putin said that, according to the Russian side, what is happening now in the Donbass is genocide.