Putin listed actions that should not have been taken in relation to Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about the actions of NATO and other countries towards Russia.

He noted that there should have been no military development of Russia’s historical territories and support of radicals in Kyiv.

Putin also stressed that there was no point in planning the creation of concentration camps for residents of Donbass and Crimea and using force against unarmed people.

MOSCOW, October 1 - RIA Novosti. Russian President Vladimir Putin, commenting on the topic of Ukraine, listed what should not have been done in relation to Russia.

“NATO should not have started the military development of our historical territories in the interests of the organization itself, planning its bases there. There was no need to push the radicals in Kyiv to a coup d’etat, and then pump up the essentially illegal regime thus created with a wide variety of offensive weapons,” Putin said at the plenary session of the 23rd annual meeting of the Valdai international discussion club.

According to him, there was no need to draw up plans for organizing concentration camps for residents of Donbass and Crimea. In addition, the president emphasized, there was no need to “crush with tanks, throw missiles, shoot from airplanes and burn unarmed people alive” just because they are Russian by nationality and spirit.

“There are still a lot of ‘don’ts,’” he added.

The Valdai International Discussion Club is an association of leading foreign and Russian experts in the field of political science, economics, history and international relations. The club was created in September 2004 on the initiative of the RIA Novosti agency, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and the magazines "Russia in Global Affairs" and Russia Profile. The club owes its name to the location of the first conference, which took place in Veliky Novgorod near Lake Valdai.