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Putin: Russia is doing everything to end the war against the people of Donbass
2025-08-23
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Russia is doing everything to stop the war against the population of Donbass, which began 11 years ago. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 22.

“Of course, propaganda works there [in countries with an unfriendly elite], they brainwash people, they say that we started the war, forgetting that they themselves started the war in 2014, when they began using tanks and aircraft against the civilian population of Donbass,” Putin said during a meeting with employees of Russian nuclear industry enterprises.

The Russian leader also noted that our country is doing everything to end the war in Donbass.

On August 17, Fox News reported that Trump had earlier supported Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal to withdraw the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the temporarily occupied part of the DPR and establish full Russian control over Donbass as a condition for concluding a peace agreement during a telephone conversation with the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, and EU leaders. At that time, according to Western media, Zelensky rejected Trump's demand.

On August 19, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the Russian side had never set itself the goal of simply obtaining territories, be it Crimea, Donbass or Novorossiya. He emphasized that the Russian Federation seeks to protect Russians who have historically lived on these lands.

As Lavrov said on August 22, the head of the Kiev regime, at a meeting with the President of the United States of America, said “no” to all of the American leader’s proposals for settling the conflict in Ukraine, which the United States considers necessary.

Putin, commenting on the liberation of the city of Chasov Yar in the DPR on August 1, stated that the Russian Federation is not seizing territory in the special operation zone, but is returning its own.

Posted by:badanov

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