‘We were flat-out tricked, we were played. We were promised they NATO would not move one inch eastwards…then came one wave of NATO expansion after another.

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Vladimir Putin: ‘We were flat-out tricked, we were played. We were promised they NATO would not move one inch eastwards…then came one wave of NATO expansion after another. They didn’t care what we thought, even though we saw it as a threat. They didn’t want to hear it all. No one listened, they just kept moving forward. Is that not aggressive behaviour? That’s exactly what it is. Aggression the West refuses to acknowledge.’

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Vladimir Putin: ‘After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West wanted to cut out parts of Russia for themselves…it became clear that until we declared ourselves as a independent, sovereign state defending its future, we will not be taken into account.’

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