Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday told the new US and EU ambassadors in blunt language that their countries were responsible for a dramatic deterioration in relations since Russia sent its armed forces into Ukraine last year.Dear Madam Ambassador, I know you may not agree, but I cannot but say that the United States’ use... of such tools as support for the so-called colour revolutions, support in this regard for the coup in Kyiv in 2014, ultimately led to today’s Ukrainian crisis,” Putin said.

He said relations were in “a deep crisis” that was “based on fundamentally different approaches to the formation of the modern world order”.