<h1>Russian president blames 2014 Kyiv coup and Western NATO push for Ukraine conflict, shifts focus at summit</h1> At a multilateral summit, the Russian president attributed the Ukraine conflict to a 2014 coup in Kyiv allegedly provoked by Western countries and to ongoing Western efforts to bring Ukraine into NATO, which he said threaten Russian security. He repeated that the 2014 removal of Ukraine's then-leadership eliminated officials opposed to NATO accession. His attendance at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting shifted attention to the conflict, to stalled diplomatic attempts at a ceasefire by the United States, and to trade pressure on an Asian member over purchases of Russian oil.