(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Moscow April 30 - The United States was initially behind the events in Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.
"I think what is happening there now shows us who really managed the process from the start. But at first the United States preferred to stay in the background" Putin told journalists when asked about his attitude toward America playing the lead in the situation around Ukraine.
He said the fact that now the United States is in the foreground in the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis shows that the US "led this process initially but only displayed itself as the leader of this entire process now." Putin said that at first the interests of the United States and its European partners coincided because the European Union "wanted to strike a well-known [association] agreement with Ukraine on terms that I believe were unprofitable for Ukraine." The previous Kiev government tried to fight it but "the Western community followed another scenario implementing the military scenario an anti-constitutional coup an armed seizure of power" (Itar-Tass) quoted Putin as saying.
According to Putin the events' initiators did not calculate what they could lead to. The Russian president said that although many people in Ukraine "liked" such a coup still "many [people] don't like it and they disagree with that form of power change." He added that there is "nothing democratic" in that.
Putin also said the Russian government proposed imposing sanctions against the United States and the European Union in response to their sanctions but added that he has not authorized them yet.
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