President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday it was unacceptable that residents of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions had no rights, but he said Moscow did not want to create problems for the new Ukrainian leadership.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Reuters: Putin says ‘we don’t want to cause problems for new Ukraine president’
Russian President Vladimir Putin, officials and other attendees listen to the national anthem at the end of Vladimir Putin's annual state of the nation address in Moscow on Feb. 20, 2019.
