Vladimir Poutine maintained Thursday, December 9 that the populations in the east of Ukraine at war, an area currently at the heart of new tensions between Moscow and the West, suffered from a "
russophobia
", a "
first step towards a genocide
".
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“
I must speak of Russophobia as a first step towards genocide.
This is what is happening at the moment in Donbass (the name of this region, editor's note), we can see it, we know it.
And of course it looks like the genocide you talked about,
”the Russian leader told a reporter during a meeting with the Presidential Council for Human Rights.
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