“This is the most important thing to be clear: what is happening is a necessary measure.
Well, they just didn’t leave any chance to do otherwise,” he said at a meeting with representatives of Russian business circles.
Putin added that such security risks were created for the Russian side that it was impossible to respond by other means.
Earlier, the Russian President, in an address to the citizens of Russia, said that he had decided to conduct a special military operation to protect Donbass.