Vladimir Putin is seeking to turn Ukraine into a failed state while silencing dissent at home, a top NATO official said on Thursday, suggesting the Russian President was ultimately responsible for the murder of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov.
“President Putin’s aim seems to be to turn Ukraine into a failed state and to suppress and discredit alternative voices in Russia,” said NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow.
“We’ve seen that the victims are not just in eastern Ukraine, with the brutal murder of Boris Nemtsov last Friday,” Vershbow told members of parliament from EU countries at a conference in Riga.
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Source: Voice of America
