“We are told, we hear today that we started a war in the Donbass, in Ukraine.
No, this same collective West unleashed it by organizing and supporting an anti-constitutional armed coup in Ukraine in 2014, and then encouraging and justifying genocide against people in Donbass,” the head of state said.
The collective West itself is the direct instigator, the culprit of what is happening today, Putin stressed.
The Russian leader also stated that the special military operation in Ukraine marked the beginning of the breakdown of the American-style world order and the transition to a truly multipolar world.