“Since then, the United States and its Western vassals have been arming Ukraine and systematically preparing Kyiv for confrontation with Russia,” he said in an interview with Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten.
Lafontaine noted that as a result of Washington's policy, Ukraine actually became a member of NATO, but Western politicians and the media "deliberately ignore" this story.
Earlier, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that after the coup in 2014, Ukraine lost its sovereignty.