A state coup is a primary source of the Kiev government’s authority, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the heads of the world's leading news agencies organized by TASS.
"For eight years, [we] had been trying to mediate between the Kiev government, whose primary source of power was a state coup, and territories that once used to be Ukraine’s southeast, or Donbass," Putin said.
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