Fact|checking Putin's claims that Ukraine and Russia are 'one people'

Fact-checking Putin's claims that Ukraine and Russia are 'one people'

Rochester historian Matthew Lenoe examines some of the claims Vladimir Putin has made to justify the invasion.

Article by Vladimir Putin ”On the Historical Unity of Russians and ...

During the recent Direct Line, when I was asked about Russian-Ukrainian relations, I said that Russians and Ukrainians were one people – a ...

Russia and Ukraine: 'One People' as Putin Claims? - RUSI

The capital of Ancient Rus' was Kyiv, making it proto-Ukrainian. Many Ukrainians say Russian history is really Muscovite history, beginning in ...

Putin's Myths About Ukraine, Debunked | TIME

Vladimir Putin fed Tucker Carlson myths about Russian and Ukrainian history that are being taught to millions of Russian students.

Fact-checking Putin's speech on Ukraine - The Washington Post

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday made a lengthy, often-bitter televised speech as he ordered troops into two pro-Russian separatist regions of ...

"There is no Ukraine": Fact-Checking the Kremlin's Version of ...

... Crimea, Putin declared that Russians and Ukrainians “are one people. Kiev is the mother of Russian cities. Ancient Rus' is our common source ...

Putin: Russians, Ukrainians are 'one people' - AP News

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says he believes Russians and Ukrainians constitute one nation and that the countries should ...

Putin Claims Map Proves Ukraine Isn't Real Despite It Saying 'Ukraine'

Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday cited a 17th-Century map of Europe to back his discredited thesis that Ukraine isn't a real country.

Putin's biggest mistake was believing Ukrainians were really Russians

Vladimir Putin's decision to launch the full-scale invasion of Ukraine was based on a series of disastrous miscalculations.

Ukrainians and Russians as 'One People': An Ideologeme and its ...

This article examines the prehistory of this claim in Russian nationalist thinking both in recent times and in the tsarist era.

Countering disinformation with facts - Russian invasion of Ukraine

The Kremlin has long spread disinformation and propaganda to achieve its objectives. It continues to disseminate lies to justify its illegal, unprovoked, ...

Russia's War in Ukraine: Identity, History, and Conflict - CSIS

This paper explains the erroneous assumptions Kremlin made about Ukrainian identity that informed its decisionmaking and laid the ...

Putin says Russia, Ukraine share historical 'unity'. Is he right?

The Russian president, who ordered an invasion of Ukraine, has often spoke of tied identities.

Ukraine crisis: Vladimir Putin address fact-checked - BBC

President Putin was talking about the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, claiming Russian-speaking residents there are being subjected to genocide.

Contextualizing Putin's "On the Historical Unity of Russians and ...

Putin posits that Ukraine can only be sovereign in partnership with Russia, doesn't need the Donbas and nullified its claims on Crimea with its declaration of ...

Putin is rewriting history to justify his threats to Ukraine - Vox

She previously worked at Business Insider covering the military and global conflicts. As Russian troops mass on the Ukrainian border and worries ...

Putin says Russians and Ukrainians 'practically one people' - Reuters

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday the Ukraine crisis was a tragedy and that Ukrainians and Russians are "practically one ...

Putin says parts of Ukraine have been Russian since 'time ... - Poynter

In a few brief lines, Putin oversimplified the centuries-long history of the region and papered over the forces that had forged a Ukrainian ...

Putin Calls Ukrainian Statehood a Fiction. History Suggests Otherwise.

President Vladimir V. Putin buoyed his case for codifying the cleavage of two rebel territories from Ukraine by arguing that the very idea of Ukrainian ...

Vladimir Putin's Revisionist History of Russia and Ukraine

The historian Serhii Plokhy discusses the Russian President's “very imperial idea” of his country, and the potential for Ukrainian resistance.