The Russian leader launched a heated attack against the Western nations that have assisted Ukraine in the conflict that began after Putin launched a full-scale invasion on February 24.The U.S. has provided just over $50 billion in military, financial and humanitarian aid since the conflict began, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a think tank in Germany.Putin accused the West of having "shamelessly siphoned off and exploited" Ukraine's resources, encouraged genocide and terror in the eastern Donbas region, and of turning the country into a "colony.""[The West] now cynically uses the Ukrainian people as cannon fodder, as a battering ram against Russia, continuing to supply Ukraine with weapons and ammunition, directing mercenaries, pushes it on a suicidal path," the Russian leader said in a video message.Putin said that Washington "and its vassals crudely interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign states," as he accused them of organizing "provocations, coups, civil wars" while "threats, blackmail and pressure try to force independent states to submit to their will.""