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Andrew Chakhoyan, “The real reason #Russia invaded #Ukraine”, 28 January 2025. Worth a read.

In 2021, Vladimir Putin penned a 5,000-word essay declaring that Ukraine does not exist — not as a culture and certainly not as a nation. Russians and Ukrainians are “one people,” he claimed, as tsars and commissars had done before him.

But this was no admission of kinship. It was a threat: Ukrainians must either accept that they are Russian or perish. Putin didn’t just challenge Ukraine’s right to self-determination; he framed it as Russia’s duty to invade, kill, rape and torture.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-real-reason-russia-invaded-143000301.html