In an exclusive interview with India Today on December 4, 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin asserted that Russia did not initiate the Ukraine war, emphasizing instead that Ukraine's actions, influenced by Western powers, provoked Moscow into the conflict following eight years of alleged violence against Russian-speaking populations in Donbass. Putin described Russia's "special military operation" not as the beginning of hostilities but as an effort to conclude a war "ignited" by the West th

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