Karel Schwarzenberg: Putin fights against free Ukraine

Ukraine has not a civil war, but "Russia fights war with free Ukraine".

Karel Schwarzenberg, the former Czech Foreign Minister, the leader of the right-wing TOP 09 party, stated that commenting on the statement of the Czech President Miloš Zeman that Ukraine is in the state of a" civil war", "Radio Svaboda" informs.

According to Schwarzenberg, first, when armed men began to seize the eastern cities, "it was an armed coup supported by Russia in August last year, this is an open war but nothing else".

Karel Schwarzenberg compared the situation in Ukraine to the events in Austria. "The Austrians before the World War II used to think they were Germans, but after being captured by Hitler, they came to believe that they were the Austrians. The same thing is happening in Ukraine now. Putin by means of caesarean section created a truly national Ukrainian State", Schwarzenberg stressed.