from Sputnik News:
During the interview, Putin said that Ukraine chose to abandon its talks with Russia at the request of the US.
On Thursday, American journalist Tucker Carlson released his interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He is the first Western journalist to do so since the special military operation in Ukraine began in February of 2022.
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During the 2-hour interview, Putin opened by explaining the centuries-long history of “Ukraine”, which he says was a name invented by the Poles, who considered the southern Russian lands, which were part of the Polish-Lithuanian state, a suburb.
“It didn’t define it as belonging to any ethnic group,” Putin told Carlson.
“What matters is that the war begun and Poland fell prey to the policies it had pursued against Czechoslovakia. This under the well known Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, a part of the territory including western Ukraine was to be given to Russia, thus Russia, which was then named the USSR regained its historical lands,” said Putin.
“So this was how this situation developed. In 1922 when the USSR was being established, the Bolsheviks started building the USSR and established the Soviet Ukraine, which had never existed before,” he added.
“Romania and Hungary had some of their lands taken away and given to the Soviet Ukraine, and they still remain part of Ukraine. So in this sense, we have every reason to affirm that Ukraine is an artificial state that was shaped at Stalin’s will,” Putin explained.
Carlson then asked Putin if he had told Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban that he can “have part of Ukraine”, to which Putin said, “never”. But during the interview, Putin explained what had led to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
“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,” said Putin.
“Initially, it was the coup in Ukraine that provoked the conflict,” Putin stated. “CIA did its job to complete the coup.”
Putin added that he had spoken to the US multiple times about the West militarizing Ukraine, adding that Ukraine had started preparing for military action. The Russian president also explained that he had wanted to negotiate a settlement with the conflict in Ukraine as well.
