Staunton, June 24 – Vladimir Putin has declared that “certain former republics of the USSR received territorial gifts from Russia” and that these “ungrateful subjects of the union” should have returned them when they exercised their right to leave.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Paul Goble: It’s Ukraine and Belarus that gave Russia territory
A woman walks at the Goptivka checkpoint near Kharkiv on the Ukrainian-Russian border on March 16, 2020.
