Putin: We were forced to intervene in Ukraine, now they want to make us look guilty

They just made us do what we're doing and they're trying to make us look guilty”. So Russian President Vladimir Putin said about military intervention in Ukraine and continuing conflict.

Speaking at a business forum, Putin, quoted by the Ria Novosti agency, returned to the description of President Viktor Januukovic's collapse in 2014 following Euromaidan demonstrations like “a coup” and denouncing violence against the population of Donbas by the new authorities in Kiev.

Earlier US President Donald Trump said Vladimir Putin was completely “quoted as launching the largest air attack on Ukraine and said he was investigating new sanctions on Moscow, though he also rebuked Ukrainian President Volodyyr Zelenskiy.

Trump posted the comment on Social Truth, while Ukrainians woke up from the third night in a row of Russian massive air strikes, listening for hours to fears buzzing near their homes and blasts of Ukrainian antiaircraft fire.

Ukrainian Air Force said Russia had released 355 drones and nine cruise missiles against Ukraine overnight, a major hail making Russia's biggest fearful attack during the war to date. /Periscope/