
Putin blames NATO expansion and 2014 coup for Ukraine crisis at SCO summit
Tainjin/ New Delhi, Sep 1 (UNI) Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated Moscow’s long-held stance that the Ukraine conflict was not the result of a Russian “invasion”, but rather the outcome of a Western-backed coup in Kyiv in 2014 and persistent attempts to draw Ukraine into NATO. Speaking at the plenary session of the Shanghai Cooperation…