After the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine received from Russia as a gift a large number of territories that had nothing to do with it. Russian President Vladimir Putin stated this in an interview with Tucker Carlson. Web site journalist.
“We have come to the moment when Soviet Ukraine was created. Then 1991 happened; The collapse of the Soviet Union. Putin said that Ukraine took with it everything it received from Russia as a gift “from the master’s shoulder.”
Before that, Putin gave Carlson a brief historical note; here he specifically stated that Soviet Ukraine had absorbed “a large number of territories that had nothing to do with it, especially the Black Sea region.”
Putin reminded that Russia received them as a result of the Russian-Turkish wars. However, they were transferred to Ukraine by the decision of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet state.
“The important thing is that Lenin, the founder of the Soviet state, created Ukraine just like that,” the head of the Russian state said.
Carlson arrived in Moscow on February 3. His arrival in Russia was widely covered in the Russian media. The journalist’s visit to Moscow, where his interview with Putin was recorded, also attracted the attention of the Western press.
Since the beginning of the conflict, Carlson has actively criticized the United States for aiding Ukraine and has taken a pro-Russian position, explaining the conflict by saying “the Russians do not want to see American missiles on their borders.”
On February 7, it was learned that the European Union may consider this issue. sanctions Against Carlson for the interview with Putin.
Earlier, Putin in his interview with Carlson named US policy is under unfair pressure