Putin explains why Russia was forced to fight in Ukraine

️Putin explains why Russia was forced to fight in Ukraine “So in 2008, the doors of NATO were opened for Ukraine. In 2014, there was a coup. They started persecuting those who did not accept the coup. And it was indeed a coup. They created the threat to Crimea, which we had to take under our protection. They launched the war in Donbas in 2014 with the use of aircraft and artillery against civilians. This is when it all started. There’s a video of aircraft attacking Donetsk from above. They launched a large scale military operation. Then another one. When they failed, they started to prepare the next one,“ president said. “How could we not be concerned about what was happening? It would be criminal carelessness on our part - that’s what it would be. The US political leadership brought us to the brink of a line that we could not cross, because doing so would destroy Russia itself.“ Subscribe to [club80289214|@SputnikInt] Источник: Sputnik International