US EditionWhirlpool for Archive Finding: Did Putin Plan the Ukraine War More than 30 Years Ago?
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The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs declassified a document that showed that Vladimir Putin had broadly understood the concept of Russian territory as early as 1994, well before he had said a famous phrase that "Russian borders never end", and occupied a fifth of Ukraine. According to his statement of 1994, he considered Russian not only Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, but also northern Kazakhstan.
Only recently Putin stressed that Ukraine belongs to Russia. Now the Federal Foreign Office found in the archive a reference from 1994 to Putin's imperialist world view.
Putin claimed Crimea and eastern Ukraine back in 1994 - German Foreign Ministry archive Documents were found in the archives of the German Foreign Ministry confirming Putin's territorial claims to Crimea, eastern Ukraine and Kazakhstan back in 1994. The former German Consul General in St. Petersburg reported that Putin claimed that these territories belonged to Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in the mid-1990s publicly voiced territorial claims to Crimea, eastern regions of Ukraine and northern Kazakhstan. The analyzed materials show that even before coming to power in Moscow, Putin openly expressed ideas that later became the basis for...
Vladimir Putin, then First Vice-President of the Government of St. Petersburg, insisted in his statements that "The Crimea, Eastern Ukraine and Northern Kazakhstan long ago belonged to Russia".
This is evidenced by the published record of the German Genconsul in St. Petersburg.
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