‘My only regret is that I didn’t attack Ukraine earlier’ – war criminal Putin to Russian TV

"The only thing we can regret is that we did not start our active actions earlier”, the war criminal said. “We believed that we were dealing with decent people," he deadpanned.

The dictator continued to spin his lies.

"Russia did not start the war" but was "only trying to stop it," he falsely claimed.

Putin lashed out with claims against former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former French President François Hollande.

"At the first stage we tried to do it with the help of peaceful means, the Minsk agreements,” he alleged.

“We were double-crossed here as well, as it turned out later. Both the former German chancellor and the former French president admitted and publicly stated that they did not intend to fulfill the agreements, but were simply buying time."