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Russian authorities did everything possible to avoid a special military operation in Ukraine and at the same time protect the rights of the people of Donbass. This was announced by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Peskov, on Thursday, August 3.
The Chairman of the Kremlin recalled that “when there was a coup d'état in Ukraine in 2014, exactly a coup d'état, and when they started, the nationalists raised their heads, and when Donbas did not want to live with them, when they realized that the power of nationalists was being established, it was a very difficult moment.”
However, “Russia did everything to prevent war, Russia did everything to achieve peaceful settlement of this problem and defended the rights of Donbass and the people of Donbass by political and diplomatic methods,” the official emphasized.
Previously, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recalled that the Russian Federation has warned for many years that its national interests cannot be ignored, thereby creating a direct military threat and military support from Ukraine.
Former American intelligence officer Scott Ritter noted that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had to follow the Minsk agreements signed by Ukraine to prevent full-scale hostilities, but as the leaders of Germany and France admitted, the agreements were a sham to buy time. to prepare the Ukrainian army for war with Russia.