Putin claims Ukraine will lose western lands and that everyone in Ukraine "has fallen out with each other"

Russian ruler Vladimir Putin has told his military that Ukraine will sooner or later lose its western lands, that left-bank Ukraine has always been considered part of Russia, and that today in Ukraine "everyone has fallen out with each other".

Source: Putin speaking on Sunday at a meeting with Russian navy personnel, as reported by the Kremlin-aligned Russian news agency TASS and the Telegram channels Vy slushali mayak (You have been listening to Radio Mayak) and Smotri, which have published video excerpts of the speech

Details: Putin claimed, as usual, that "there is no aggression whatsoever on Russia's part" and that the Russians had been "forced to launch the SMO in an attempt to end hostilities that had already been started by the Western side and the Kyiv regime". The Russians refer to their unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine using the term "the special military operation" (SMO).

The Russian ruler also falsely claimed that Ukraine's west had been a gift from Joseph Stalin, but that he had "given" these lands not to Ukraine, but "within the framework of a single state".

Quote: "By the way, I'm certain that sooner or later Ukraine will lose these western lands. And what belonged to Poland, Hungary, Romania will, sooner or later – maybe not tomorrow, not the day after, in a year, two, 10, 15 – but everything will historically fall back into place."

Details: Putin did not explain why Ukraine should lose its western territories.

He also called Russia – the aggressor state that has spent five years killing people in Ukraine and destroying its cities – the sole guarantor of Ukraine's territorial integrity.

Quote: "There was only one guarantor of Ukraine's territorial integrity – and that was Russia. But they considered it necessary, possible and beneficial for themselves to declare Russia their enemy, and Russians not a titular nation in Ukraine, which is complete nonsense and rubbish."

Details: As part of a pseudo-historical digression, Putin also claimed that "historically, Ukraine was always divided into left-bank and right-bank – the left bank was always considered not just oriented towards Russia, but part of Russia".

He asserted that Vladimir Lenin had given Donbas not to Russia but to Ukraine, and that the aggressor state now "has to put everything back on a normal historical course".

Putin also claimed that the war against Ukraine will end sooner or later, with "the enemy defeated and victory belonging to Russia".

He also tried to convince his military that in Ukraine "everyone there has clashed, fallen out with each other, like spiders in a jar, dividing up the money they stole from the Ukrainian people or are stealing from their Western sponsors, dividing it up and destroying each other, fleeing abroad, hiding, coming back again – what kind of unity is that".

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