Putin: “Russophobia” in Donbass, Ukraine – “It is a first step towards genocide”

THE Vladimir Putin claimed on Thursday that its residents Eastern Ukraine, a war zone that is at the heart of new tensions between the West and Moscow, is suffering from “Russophobia“, Which is” a first step towards genocide “.

“I have to talk about Russophobia as a first step towards genocide. This is currently happening in Donbass (s.s. eastern Ukraine), we see it, we know it. And that certainly looks like genocide “You spoke about it,” he told a news conference.

The statement was made during a meeting of the Presidential Council on Human Rights, according to an AFP telegram. As reported by APE BPE, Putin was responding to the Russian-Ukrainian journalist Kirill Wisinski, who asked him to introduce the concepts of “genocide” and “incitement to genocide” into Russian law.

The journalist, who was imprisoned in Ukraine in 2018 and 2019said that “Russian-speakers and members of the Russian people” in Donbas live in “unbearable living conditions” and compared the situation in the region with the crimes committed in Holocaust.

It is noted that for the past seven years, the Donbas region has become a battleground between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces. At least 13.000 people have been killed and the political settlement of the issue, as provided for in the 2015 Minsk agreements, is at an impasse.

Russia is considered their main military and financial backer guerrillas, although the he denies.

Moscow and the Russian state media often blame it Kiev that he instigated the war, pursuing a policy of discrimination against Russian-speakers, despite the denials of the Ukrainian authorities.

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