Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, has iterated that Moscow is not to blame for the crisis in Ukraine by stating that both his nation and Ukraine “share a grief.”

In a televised conversation with senior military leaders, the Russian president maintained his belief that Ukraine is a “brotherly country.”

Instead of blaming Russia, he said that the conflict was caused by “the policy of other states.”

Experts from nations other than Russia have consistently refuted this argument against Western expansion.

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Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, charged that the West had “brainwashed” all of the former Soviet Union’s countries.

He declared, “We tried for years to establish friendly connections with Ukraine, providing loans and cheap electricity, but it did not succeed.

It would be unjustified to cast charges against us. I still believe that Ukrainians are a brotherly people, as they have long been thought to be.

Although what is happening right now is awful, we are not responsible for it,” he added.

Meanwhile, the “special military operation,” according to military officials who spoke during the event, will last until 2023.

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