Putin the KGB minster is a great humanitarian.
Good grief
Apparently you feel free to read whatever you want into what someone who doesn't agree with you says. Typical behavior for dimwits and trained behavior for propagandists.
Putin is the current Russian Czar, that's about the size of it. Czars are as a rule have insane, delusional, pragmatists, or a combination of the three. Putin to date seems to be almost totally a pragmatist or he'd have been stirring up a lot more trouble than he has been ever since NATO broke the promise it made not to expand toward the East.
A great humanitarian? I doubt it, but at least in this case he was stating a fact. A fact the current "government" denied and propagandists who pretend to be interested in the facts desperately want to blame on anyone except their dear pals in the Ukraine.
Why is Ukraine as now constituted sacrosanct when countries the EU and NATO want to split up aren't?
Why should NATO, the EU, the US, or anyone else care whether or not it ends up as multiple countries?
Look at a map, the pipelines in the Ukraine that everything East of the Don becoming part of Russia wouldn't touch are are sufficient to supply Europe.
The EU wants sufficient control of the Ukraine to shut off pipelines as it sees fit in order to twist the screws on Russia whenever they please, not sufficient control to keep the gas flowing. If that's all they wanted they'd have been happy to have Putin outbid them and deal with the Ukraine debt instead of milking it out of the Ukraine themselves.
The EU figured Russia was desperate to sell the gas and the weak link in putting a harness on Russia was the Ukraine which could refuse to go along with EU games. They tried a nice little operation like the ones they've done elsewhere. It didn't work. Putin first outbid them, then made it clear he'd protect what he considered vital to Russia by taking the Crimea off the game-board in case NATO tried another bombing referendum in the Ukraine.
Real simple power games with no good guys controlling it. Anyone who thinks one set of hands in this is cleaner than another set is just stupid or so ill-informed they may as well be stupid.