🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the annual news conference (Moscow, 14 December 2023):

💬 Despite the current tragic developments, Russians and Ukrainians are essentially one people.

☝️ What is happening now is an immense tragedy; it is like a civil war between brothers who stand on different sides [of the conflict].

But overall, they are not, to a large extent, responsible for this.

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