In a speech, President Vladimir V. Putin bent Ukraine’s complex history into his own version that served as a justification for his cleaving off more of its territory. https://ift.tt/rJM2Qdl https://ift.tt/IidUxbv World New York Times February 20, 2022 at 07:00PMPutin Calls Ukrainian Statehood a Fiction. History Suggests Otherwise.

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