Oliver Stone condemns Putin's 'aggression in Ukraine', says 'Russia was wrong to invade'

Amid ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, which commenced after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a 'special military operation' on February 24, many table personalities across globe have expressed support for Ukrainian people embroiled in catastrophe unleashed by Russian forces. 

latest celebrity to join league is filmmaker Oliver Stone, who expressed his perspective on situation via Facebook recently. Stone, who has earlier interviewed Russian President for a documentary called Putin Interviews, quipped that latter's aggression in Ukraine is unjustified and that Russia was wrong to invade its neighbour. 

'Russia was wrong to invade': Oliver Stone 

In latest status on his Facebook account, Stone mentioned, "Although United States has many wars of aggression on its conscience, it doesn’t justify Mr. Putin’s aggression in Ukraine. A dozen wrongs don’t make a right. Russia was wrong to invade."

He went on to mention 'too many mistakes' committed by Russian side. "1) underestimating Ukrainian resistance, 2) overestimating military’s ability to achieve its objective, 3) underestimating Europe’s reaction, especially Germany upping its military contribution to NATO, which y’ve resisted for some 20 years; even Switzerland has joined cause. Russia will be more isolated than ever from West. 4) underestimating enhanced power of NATO, which will w put more pressure on Russia’s borders," he asserted and continued talking about Russia's or pitfalls as y continue bombing Ukrainian cities. 

Stone furr spoke at length about 'greet unseen trdy' and ended by saying, "Alas, in our century so far, man has failed to see or reach for stars."

His statement comes weeks after he quipped that re was " proof" Russia intended to invade. In an interview with KCRW's Robert Scheer, as per Deadline, Oliver had said, " US and its allies in NATO have been provoking Russia since two years w -- actually three years - over Ukraine", adding, "I think Russia is concerned only with Donbass region." 

Oliver has previously curated a string of documentaries on controversial world leaders like Fidel Castro and Lula da Silva, apart from Putin. 

(Im: AP)