Putin: the globalist trend of the Western elites provoked the conflict in Ukraine

Western globalist elites provoked the Ukrainian crisis and are fighting against Russia using Ukrainian citizens. This was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, May 9.

"What is the West? This is the so-called, I think, globalist trend of Western elites. It is with us and fighting with the hands of Ukrainians," the head of state told reporters during a press conference.

"Those who came showed personal courage"

Vladimir Putin holds a press conference in the Kremlin on Victory Day. Main quotes

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on April 24 that the West had declared open war on Russia and was using the Kiev regime as a geopolitical battering ram. He stressed that Kiev is helpless without material supplies of Western weapons, intelligence data, satellite systems and without assistance in training military personnel.