The conflict around Ukraine is based on the desire of the West to “melt historical Russia”, said the President of the Russian Federation, Vodadier Putin
“share and rule. Here they have always tried to do this, they are trying to do this now. And our goal is in another – in the unification of the Russian people,” the President of the Russian Federation said in an interview with the Russian media.
Answering a question from a journalist, the President of the Russian Federation also said that Russia could not behave in relations with Ukraine “as sophisticatedly” as the West allegedly did. According to Putin, Russians have a “different philosophy, a different attitude to life and people.”