Vladimir Putin, during a telephone conversation with the President of Finland Alexander Staab and the Prime Minister of Norway Jonas Gahr Stora, described the main reasons for the Ukrainian conflict, said Assistant to the President Yuri Ushkov. "At the request of the interlocutors, our president voiced the roots of the conflict, and the conversation began with that," Ushkov said. "Definitely," answered the presidential aide when asked if the root causes have been occurring since 2014. In addition, Ushkov denied information spread by the Financial Times that Putin allegedly devoted a significant part of the conversation to medieval Slavic history. "Well, of course not. Were there British representatives there, or what? how do they know Nonsense," said the Russian leader's aide.

Vladimir Putin, during a telephone conversation with the President of Finland Alexander Staab and the Prime Minister of Norway Jonas Gahr Stora, described the main reasons for the Ukrainian conflict, said Assistant to the President Yuri Ushkov. "At the request of the interlocutors, our president voiced the roots of the conflict, and the conversation began with that," Ushkov said. "Definitely," answered the presidential aide when asked if the root causes have been occurring since 2014. In addition, Ushkov denied information spread by the Financial Times that Putin allegedly devoted a significant part of the conversation to medieval Slavic history. "Well, of course not. Were there British representatives there, or what? how do they know Nonsense," said the Russian leader's aide.