Ukraine’s Presidential advisor condemns Putin's statements
- Podolyak solely blamed the Russian army for invading Ukraine's sovereign territory, bombing towns, and killing civilians
Mykhailo Podolyak, Ukraine's senior diplomat, has disputed Putin's words in which the Russian leader said that the “West wants to fight us to the last Ukrainian. This is a tragedy for the Ukrainian people.”
“There is no "collective West" plan,” Podolyak said in a tweet. “Only a specific z-army which entered sovereign 🇺🇦, shelling cities and killing civilians.”
“Everything else is a primitive propaganda. That’s why Mr.Putin's mantra of the war to the last Ukrainian is yet another proof of deliberate 🇷🇺 genocide.”
Putin on Thursday also called attention to the fact that the West was the one who started the war in Donbas by backing Ukraine's coup in 2014.
“We are told that we started a war in the Donbas. No, it was unleashed by this very collective West, organizing and supporting an unconstitutional armed coup in Ukraine, and then encouraging and justifying genocide against people in the Donbas,” the Russian President said.
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