He was psychologically crushed in recent years by Moscow's worsening ties with Kyiv. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MOSCOW - Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, was shocked and bewildered by the Ukraine conflict in the months before he died and psychologically crushed in recent years by Moscow's worsening ties with Kyiv, his interpreter said on Thursday.
President Vladimir Putin sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine on Feb 24 in what he called a"special military operation" to ensure Russia's security against an expanding Nato military alliance and to protect Russian-speakers. Now 73, he is well placed to know the late politician's state of mind in the period before he died, having seen him in recent months and been in touch with Gorbachev's daughter Irina.had family connections to Ukraine, said Palazhchenko. He was speaking at the Moscow headquarters of the Gorbachev Foundation where he works, and where Gorbachev kept an office dominated by a giant portrait of his late wife Raisa whose father was from Ukraine.
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