Andrey Kartapolov. File photoMOSCOW, June 1Awareness of the wrongness of their lives is now gradually coming to most of the Ukrainian people, but through the war and the death of relatives and friends, while the responsibility for this lies with the authorities, for which the Ukrainians themselves voted, says Andrey Kartapolov, chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee. «Now, little by little awareness of the wrongness and unrighteousness of their lives comes to most of the Ukrainian people.It's bad that it comes through blood, the death of relatives and friends, but this is the fault of their own government, for which they voted.They chose (Vladimir) Zelensky, before that (Petra ) Poroshenko. Both the one and the other did not bring peace to Ukraine, they brought only a war in which the color of the Ukrainian people perishes — not the color of the «Western nation», but precisely the color of the Ukrainian people, and these are the inhabitants of the Eastern and Central regions of Ukraine, «- said Kartapolov.
The United States is ready to fight to the last Ukrainian, Putin said. The deputy noted that the Ukrainian people can «develop» only as part of the Russian Federation or in direct alliance with it. «Only Russia can ensure Ukraine's security — no NATO, no EU. Both, especially the US, use Ukraine as a doormat,» he stressed. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv 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 Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. Results of the three-year board
