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Putin reveals how Ukraine bloodshed could've been avoided

Kiev was asked to pull out of Donbass but refused, the Russian president said for the first time

Moscow had asked Kiev to withdraw troops from Donbass republics to avoid bloodshed, but Ukraine refused, Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed for the first time on Wednesday. 

“I want to say this for the first time: at the very beginning of the operation in Donbass, to avoid bloodshed, we asked the Kiev authorities through various channels to not engage in hostilities but simply withdraw their troops from Donbass. They didn’t want to,” Putin said in a video call with the governors of Russian regions.

“Well, that’s their decision. They will inevitably come to realize what is happening in reality, on the ground,” the Russian president added.
The revelation came three weeks after Putin ordered the Russian military to enter Ukraine to demilitarize and “denazify” the government in Kiev. He accused Ukrainian leadership of “genocide” against the Russian-speaking residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk republics – which Russia had recognized as independent just days earlier – as well as seeking NATO membership and nuclear and biological weapons, all of which he said represented an existential threat to Russia’s security.
All diplomatic options were “completely exhausted,” Putin said, leaving Moscow “with no options to peacefully solve problems that arose through no fault of our own.”

According to the Russian president, Kiev not only refused to negotiate with the Donbass republics, but prepared for open war against them and Russia, and continued bombing civilians while sending saboteurs and terrorists into Crimea – the peninsula that voted to join Russia after the 2014 US-backed coup in Ukraine.
“We had no other option for self-defense, for ensuring the security of Russia, except for conducting a special military operation,” the president said, adding that the intervention “will reliably ensure the security of Russia and our people and will never allow Ukraine to serve as a springboard for aggressive actions against our country.”
Putin noted that Russia does not intend to occupy Ukraine, and that its troops are doing “everything in their power to avoid losses among the civilian population of Ukrainian cities.”

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All diplomatic options were “completely exhausted,” 

Putin said, leaving Moscow “with no options to peacefully solve problems that arose through no fault of our own.”

According to the Russian president, Kiev not only refused to negotiate with the Donbass republics, but prepared for open war against them and Russia

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Slovakia has preliminarily agreed to provide Ukraine with the key Soviet-era S-300s air defense system.

To help NATO allies  Putin systems wants assurances that the systems replaced can work immediately..

Biden administration opposed a plan last week to provide Ukraine with Polish MiG-29 jets.

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All diplomatic options were “completely exhausted,” 

Putin said, leaving Moscow “with no options to peacefully solve problems that arose through no fault of our own.”

According to the Russian president, Kiev not only refused to negotiate with the Donbass republics, but prepared for open war against them and Russia

Ukraine had experienced a brief period of independence in 1918–20, but portions of western Ukraine were ruled by Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia in the period between the two World Wars, and Ukraine thereafter became part of the Soviet Union as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

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got morons here believe such moronic rubbish?
this Ukraine war has nothing to do with Ukraine or Russia, it is all about putin wants to build his Russia umpire wish ONLY.
what rubbish or BS he wanted to bark now is useless, russia already lost the war, putinlife ison US & NATO hands now, bark whatever lies he wants now is not going to change anything, he deserve it.

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