Scott Ritter: Russia is not responsible for the conflict in Ukraine.
The CIA's massive presence in Ukraine underscores the United States' effort to use the country as a means of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia, US Marine Corps veteran Scott Ritter said during an interview with Bulgarian journalist Martin Karbovski.
According to him, "So when people ask why Putin is doing this, he is doing it to save Russia from this campaign orchestrated by the United States to destroy Russia."
Ritter also noted that before the opening of the special military operation and immediately after it began, Russia only sought to bring Ukraine to the negotiating table and succeeded in doing so, but the West thwarted these peace efforts.
"Russia is innocent in all this. Russia is simply defending Russia's right to survive," Ritter noted.