“There (in Ukraine. -
RT
), apart from the forest from the Carpathians, soon only bald mountains will remain from the Carpathians - and wheat, corn, nothing more Ukrainian is needed,” Putin stated.
Earlier, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev noted that the EU authorities are preparing the people of Ukraine to die "for the European perspective."
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the West has been manipulating Ukraine's desire to join the European Union for many years, but Kyiv has not yet had a bright future.