Putin explains attack on Ukraine

Kiev openly rejected the peace deal it signed with Donbass republics, so Moscow had to protect them, the Russian president said

Ukraine openly refused to implement a peace deal with rebels from the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics so Russia had no option but to use military force to defend the people living there, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed on Tuesday.

President Volodymyr Zelensky and other Kiev senior officials had “declared that the Minsk agreements cannot be implemented,” Putin recalled, referring to the roadmap to peace in Ukraine brokered by Russia, Germany and France.

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