The White House did not see anything in the speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 27 that would indicate a change in Moscow's strategic goals.

White House spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre told reporters at a briefing.

"I will say about Putin's speech quite simply:

there was nothing new in it at all

," she said.

"

It does not indicate that Putin's strategic goals have changed.

He does not want Ukraine to exist as an independent nation-state, and this is evident at least from the fact that he started an unprovoked war in Ukraine," the White House spokeswoman explained.

She also assured that the US approach will not change: "continuation of support for Ukraine along with other countries of the world while Russia is waging this brutal war."

What Putin said about Ukraine

During a speech at the "Valdai Forum" on October 27, Putin said that the war against Ukraine "was inevitable", but it happened "through no fault of Moscow".

Instead, the dictator said that the Russian Federation simply wanted to "protect" the "republics" of Donbas.

The head of the Kremlin once again accused Ukraine of creating a "dirty bomb", but also assured that he is not planning to use nuclear weapons against the state. 

Putin called the events on the Maidan in 2014 a "senseless coup d'état";

said that Ukrainians and Russians are supposedly one people;

said that "the real guarantor of Ukrainian statehood could only be Russia, which created today's Ukraine."

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