Putin: the Ukrainian people hostage to the West

MOSCOW-"Trying to destroy Russia, canceling what happened at the end of the Second World War and international law: this is what Moscow is undergoing today". This is what President Vladimir Putin said at the beginning of his speech in Moscow's Red Square, during the celebrations for Victory Day over Nazi-fascism. “This is the catastrophe that the Ukrainian people are experiencing, hostage to a regime that is trying to achieve its own goals,” Putin said. Ukraine - continued the Russian president - "has become a hostage to a coup d'état and a bargaining chip in the hands of the West". According to Putin, “exorbitant ambitions, arrogance and permissiveness inevitably turn into tragedies. This is the reason for the catastrophe that the Ukrainian people are experiencing. They have become hostages of a coup and the criminal regime of its Western masters,” the Russian president said.