
Graffiti on a wall in Donetsk. File photoMOSCOW, Mar 26The crisis in Ukraine occurred not because of the territories, but because of the genocide of the Russian-speaking population in the Donbass, said the speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin. Earlier, US President Joe Biden, answering the question during a press conference whether he believes that Kiev will have to give up part of the territories to achieve a ceasefire, said that this issue «is completely dependent on Ukraine.» «The crisis in Ukraine did not occur because of the territories, but because of the genocide of the Russian-speaking population. We stood up for our citizens and compatriots in Donbass. For us, this is a matter of security, peaceful life and building good relations,» Volodin wrote on his Telegram channel. He stressed that Biden's statement makes one think that he is «an unfortunate person stuck in the past, somewhere during the Cold War. «For Biden, there is no value of human life and freedom; such concepts as a common history, faith, culture are alien to him. All this is just a decoration for him, a beautiful screen for his achievements for selfish purposes. The true values of the US elites are territories, natural resources, the subsoil of other countries and, most importantly, the money that can be earned from them,» Volodin added. jpg» />Russia is responsible for Ukraine. He stressed that this is the whole point of US foreign policy. «For Biden to understand this, he needs to accept our system of values, which is hardly possible. For him, strength is in money, but for us, in truth,» Volodin concluded .Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DNR and LNR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. West for the future of the world

