Putin wrote an article about the wall between Russia and Ukraine

Nthe article is published on the website of the President of Russia in Russian and Ukrainian. It consists of an analysis of the history of the two peoples and an analysis of the current state of affairs. “Russia has never been and will never be “anti-Ukraine,” Putin assured

 Putin wrote an article about the wall between Russia and Ukraine

The article promised during the direct line by Vladimir Putin “About the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians”has been published on the Kremlin’s website. There is also a translation of this article into Ukrainian. Moreover, in the Russian version of the text, the phrase “in Ukraine” is used, and in Ukrainian, instead of the preposition “in”, the ” in ” is used.

In the introductory part, Putin said that he perceives the wall that has arisen between Russia and Ukraine in recent years as a “big common trouble, as a tragedy”.

“I would like to emphasize right away that I perceive the wall that has arisen in recent years between Russia and Ukraine, between parts of, in fact, one historical and spiritual space, as a great common misfortune, as a tragedy. These are primarily the consequences of our own mistakes made in different periods, ” Putin wrote.

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However, this was not the only reason, the president believes. «[This is also the result of the purposeful work of those forces that have always sought to undermine our unity. The formula that is used has been known for centuries: divide and conquer. Nothing new. Hence the attempts to play on the national issue, to sow discord between people. And as a super-task— to divide, and then to pit against each other parts of a single people»,— he points out.

The historical part of the article ends with the conclusion that “modern Ukraine” is entirely the brainchild of the Soviet era. According to Putin, “the Bolsheviks treated the Russian people as an inexhaustible material for social experiments “and therefore” arbitrarily cut borders, distributed generous territorial gifts”. “One thing is obvious: Russia was actually robbed,” Putin sums up.

In the USSR, the borders between the republics were conditional and were not perceived as state borders. The President recalled the proposal of the Mayor of St. Petersburg, Anatoly Sobchak, that the republics-the founders of the Soviet Union should leave it within the borders in which they joined the USSR. “The Russian Federation has recognized the new geopolitical realities. And not just recognized, but did a lot to make Ukraine an independent country, ” Putin noted and added that in 1991 and 2013, Ukraine saved $82 billion due to low prices for Russian gas.

Putin believes that Ukraine came out of the USSR as a powerful power with advanced industries and developed science, and now it is the poorest country in Europe with a per capita GDP below Albania, Moldova and Kosovo.

“In fact, the Ukrainian elites decided to justify the independence of their country through the denial of its past,” however, with the exception of the issue of borders. They began to mythologize and rewrite history, to erase everything that unites us from it, to talk about the period when Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire and the USSR as an occupation. The common tragedy of collectivization, the famine of the early 30s, should be passed off as the genocide of the Ukrainian people, ” Putin wrote.

Long before 2014, the United States and the EU countries were pushing Kiev to “curtail, limit economic cooperation with Russia,” although at that time it was Russia that was the largest trade and economic partner of Ukraine.

“Step by step, Ukraine was drawn into a dangerous geopolitical game, the purpose of which is to turn Ukraine into a barrier between Europe and Russia, into a springboard against Russia. Inevitably, the time came when the concept of “Ukraine is not Russia” was no longer satisfied. It took & laquo;anti-Russia», which we will never put up with»,— the article says.

Russian Russian and Ukrainian peoples, and first of all the Russian language, have come under attack after the events of 2014, which Putin considers a coup d’etat in Ukraine. “The project” anti-Russia ” was rejected by millions of residents of Ukraine. Crimeans and residents of Sevastopol have made their historical choice. And people in the south-east peacefully tried to defend their position. But all of them, including children, were registered as separatists and terrorists, ” Putin believes.

He called the Minsk agreements an attempt to stop the fratricidal war in Ukraine, while Putin reproached Kiev for officially assuring it of its commitment to the Minsk agreements, but at the same time talking about their “unacceptability”.

“Apparently, and I am becoming more and more convinced of this: Kiev simply does not need the Donbass,” the Russian president noted. According to him, an atmosphere of fear is being created in Ukrainian society, aggressive rhetoric is flourishing, and the authorities are indulging neo-Nazis, the country is being militarized. All this is happening “under the protectorate, under the control of the Western powers”.

“The Western authors of the anti-Russia project are setting up the Ukrainian political system in such a way that presidents, deputies, ministers change, but there is an unchanging attitude to division with Russia, to enmity with it. The main pre-election slogan of the current president was the achievement of peace. This is how he came to power. The promises turned out to be lies. Nothing has changed. And in some ways, the situation in Ukraine and around the Donbass has also degraded, ” Putin wrote.

He assured that Russia remains open for dialogue with Ukraine, but only if the authorities will defend their national interests, and not serve others ‘ interests, and will not be a tool in someone’s hands to fight us.

“We respect the Ukrainian language and traditions. To the desire of Ukrainians to see their state free, safe, prosperous, ” the President of Russia assured.

In the final part, Putin wrote that “Russia has never been and will never be “anti-Ukraine”, and the true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible precisely in partnership with Russia. “Together we have always been and will be many times stronger and more successful. After all, we are “one people”, the President of Russia stated and added that the fate of Ukraine will be decided by its citizens.Instagram Live broadcasts and instant news on our Instagram

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