MOSCOW, Oct. 11 Nobody in the West has been paying attention to the killing of people in the South-East of Ukraine for eight years, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.
«The war started in Ukraine in 2014, when, after a coup d'etat supported by the United States and Europe, they supported the coup d'etat and began fighting in the South-East of Ukraine. They fought for eight years, killed women, children, old people, and no one paid attention to this. Everyone paid attention only to when we began actions aimed at ending this war,» Putin said at the plenary session of the international forum «Russian Energy Week».