Editor's Note: This story was updated with comments from Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha. Russian President Vladimir Putin said "all of Ukraine" belonged to Russia in a speech on June 20 at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, amid increasingly aggressive official statements about Moscow's final territorial ambitions in Ukraine. Putin's
  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Putin’s claim was based on the false narrative often pushed both by himself as leader and by Russian propaganda that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people.”

    But don’t they also claim that Ukrainians are Nazis?

    • dmalteseknight@programming.devEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I mean they are laying claim to the territory. They could “cleanse” it from the “nazis” if they take it over. Kind of like how a man with a funny moustache did with a certain demographic some time ago.