Putin defends Ukraine offensive at SCO Summit, blames West for fueling the war

At the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin defends his country's offensive on Ukraine, instead blames the West for the conflict. He backs his claims by saying the crisis in Ukraine was triggered because of an ongoing coup in the country, which the West fueled. He also cited that the crisis is not dousing because the West keeps dragging Ukraine into NATO. “This crisis wasn't triggered by Russia's attack on Ukraine, but was a result of a coup in Ukraine, which was supported and provoked by the West,” Putin said.

A brief recap of the episode would be US President Donald Trump's statement, in which he referred to the conflict as his predecessor Joe Biden's war. “This is Biden's war, and we're working very hard to get us out. I stopped five wars in the last five months, actually, and I'd like this to be the sixth, frankly...”

"The other ones I stopped with in a matter of days, almost every one of them, including India and Pakistan. And I could go over the whole list, but you know the list as well as I do..." he added.

Mentioning the Alaska summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that understandings reached during his meeting with US President Donald Trump at a summit in August. He noted it had opened a way to find a resolution to the crisis in Ukraine. "In this regard, we highly appreciate the efforts and proposals from China and India aimed at facilitating the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis," Putin said at the SCO summit in Tianjin, China.