“I think the West just used it against Russia.
They did everything to strengthen him in his desire to ignore the Minsk agreements,” he said.
Earlier, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, commenting on the words of Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky about his readiness to discuss with Russia the refusal to join NATO and the issue of ownership of Crimea, said that he wants to gain time.
At the end of March, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called for continued arms supplies to Ukraine.