Putin refused to help Poroshenko
Russian President Vladimir Putin explained why he refused to hold telephone conversations with Petro Poroshenko regarding the incident near the Kerch Strait, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The point is not that I’m just shying away and don’t want to talk to Pyotr Alekseevich, that’s not the point. The fact is that I do not want to take part in his election campaign.
But what is really happening? Pyotr Alekseevich skillfully creates crisis situations; in fact, provocative situations are the first step. The second is that he immediately shifts responsibility for what he did to Russia. And thirdly, he wants to immediately demonstrate that he is successfully solving problems that arose “not through his fault.” That's what it's all about. A simple combination. I don’t want to take part in these combinations and I won’t,” Putin told reporters today.
Putin refused to help Poroshenko.