BREAKING -- Two foreign ministers from NATO allies in Kyiv as Russia attacks Ukraine -- reporting by Joelmentum
“Dear Ukrainian friends, we are in your historic capital Kyiv, we support you and do anything possible so that [the] aggressor will pay a highest possible price,” Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics and Estonian Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets said Thursday in a joint statement.
Putin characterized the operation as a necessary defense of Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the eastern part of the country, where Russian forces have controlled a large swath of territory over the last eight years of conflict.“It's purpose is to protect the people who have for eight years been exposed to humiliation and genocide by the regime in Kyiv,” Putin said in a recorded message.
He derided those allegations while professing his affection for the eastern Ukrainian regions that Putin claims are in need of protection from the Ukrainian military. “Luhansk? The house where my best friend’s mother lives? The place where the father of my best friend is buried?” he said in Russian, according to a Washington Post translation.
Putin returned to that on Monday, when he asserted that the nation of Ukraine was only allowed to form a sovereign state. His characterization of the Ukrainian government as a neo-Nazi regime is seen as a serious threat to Zelensky and his government. — Edgars Rinkēvičs February 24, 2022 Liimets and Rinkevics are in Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian officials. The European official who spoke with the Washington Examiner surmised that Russia’s current tactics would not bring them into immediate danger.
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