Putin said Emir Kusturica's assessments regarding events in Ukraine coincide with his own.

"Your assessments of today, including the tragic events in Ukraine, fully coincide with mine. That's how it is. What happened in Serbia and what is happening now between Russia and Ukraine, the glorification, the elevation of fascist elements from the past, giving them new life in the present, are certainly very similar phenomena," Putin said at a meeting with Kusturica on Tuesday.

Kusturica, in turn, thanked the president for restoring historical justice.