# Putin calls attempts to portray Kiev regime as defender of democracy strange

https://mins.news/en/item/64846

- TASS, 2026-09-18 20:26 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://tass.com/politics/2189969

> Russian President Vladimir Putin said Western efforts to depict Ukraine’s allegedly corrupt Kiev regime as Europe’s main defender of democracy sounded strange. He argued that the current Ukrainian regime had long since degenerated into a dictatorship and could not defend democracy.

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