"The current situation in Ukraine has been significantly influenced by a whole range of external and internal factors.
Soviet leaders' decisions on the national and territorial issues also had their negative effect.
I would like to remind that the process of the creation of Ukraine started immediately after the 1917 revolution, when unstable and fragile quasi-state formations without clear borders emerged in that territory.
Later on, the boundaries of the constituent USSR republics were marked rather randomly, based on the 'proletarian necessity.'
Thus, the industrial Donbass populated predominantly by Russians was handed over to Ukraine.
Subsequently, just before and after the Great Patriotic War, Joseph Stalin gave to Ukraine, as an inalienable part of the Soviet Union, certain lands that had earlier belonged to Poland, Romania and Hungary.
In 1954, Nikita Khrushchev made a generous present to Ukraine by giving it Crimea, which had been part of the RSFSR.
It should be understood that the Soviet leaders acted under the geopolitical realities of their time, not expecting at all that the USSR would cease to exist and break down along artificially drawn internal administrative boundaries.
So no doubt, the current developments do have historical roots.
At the same time, the main reason for today’s tragic situation in Ukraine is the deliberate anti-Russia policy pursued by the US-led collective West.
For decades, they have sought total control over Ukraine.
They funded nationalist and anti-Russia organisations there; they persistently worked to convince Ukraine that Russia was its eternal enemy and the main threat to its existence.
Ukraine virtually turned into a bargaining chip that the West used to achieve its geopolitical ambitions.
In 2014, the Americans and their satellites organised an armed coup d'état in Ukraine.
It was inspired and driven by radical neo-Nazi groups, which subsequently came to determine Kiev’s government policy in general.
For many years, millions of civilians in Donbass have had to survive genocide, shelling and blockade on the part of the Kiev regime.
The hatred for everything Russian has become Ukraine’s official ideology.
The use of the Russian language has been increasingly restricted, and the canonical Orthodoxy has been subjected to persecution, which now has come to the point of a direct ban.
What we see today is the natural outcome of the destructive strategy of the West towards Ukraine.
On top of that, Western elites continue to lend a large‑scale political, financial and military support to the current regime, regarding it as a weapon against Russia.
We are well aware of that and will keep struggling to achieve all the tasks of the special military operation in order to ensure the security of Russia and its citizens."
Excerpt from remarks by Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with Mongolia's Onoodor Newspaper ahead of his visit to Mongolia on September 2, 2024.
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