Deputy of the upper house of the Japanese Parliament Muneo Suzuki said that Russia was forced to launch a special military operation in Ukraine.
“I believe Russian President Vladimir Putin was forced to launch a special military operation.
Now the general trend is that the encroachment by force on the sovereignty of a state or its territory is a violation of international law.
Even the UN adopted such a resolution.
I believe that there was a reason,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
The MP stressed that Ukraine violated its promises, which it signed a few years ago.
“Why did Putin go for it?
In 2014, the Minsk-1 process was launched.
Minsk-2 took place in 2015.
Whose side did not comply with these agreements?
Here, I think, the responsibility of Ukraine is heavy,” he concluded.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking at SPIEF, said that hostilities are always a tragedy, they became a forced measure on the part of Russia, which launched an operation to protect Donbas.
In a conversation with UN Secretary General António Guterres in April, Vladimir Putin recalled that the whole problem around Ukraine arose after the coup d'état that took place in Kyiv in 2014.
