It was the Ukrainian government which began a war against its own territory following a state coup in Kiev, Russian President said ST. PETERSBURG, June 19. /TASS/. Russia was not the one to begin the hostilities in Ukraine, it is trying to end them, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the heads of the world's leading news agencies organized by TASS. "We think that we were not the ones to begin the hostilities in Ukraine, we are the ones trying to end them. It was the