By Kavita Mistry 
In an exclusive interview with India Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow didn’t start the war, and it was the West who egged Ukraine on.
On the Russia-Ukraine War, Putin said, “We didn’t start the war. The West backed Ukraine and supported the events by orchestrating the coup d’tat. That was the point that triggered the events in Crimea, followed by developments in southeastern Ukraine, in Donbass. However, they never mention it.”