Ukraine/Russia: Putin Admits Ukraine Invasion Is an Imperial War to “Return” Russian Land

Jun 10, 2022 | Peter Dickinson, Atlantic Council
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Throughout the past few months, Vladimir Putin has offered up all manner of outlandish excuses for his invasion of Ukraine. At various different times he has blamed the war on everything from NATO expansion to imaginary Nazis, while also making completely unsubstantiated claims about Western plots to invade Russia and Ukrainian schemes to acquire nuclear weapons.