World Putin Calls Ukrainian Statehood a Fiction. History Suggests Otherwise. February 22, 2022February 22, 2022Michael Schwirtz, Maria Varenikova and Rick GladstoneComments Off on Putin Calls Ukrainian Statehood a Fiction. History Suggests Otherwise. 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.
