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Putin’s True Motive for Ukraine Invasion Revealed in Report
NEWSWEEK
Isabel van Brugen
4-26-2023 7:54 AM
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-motive-ukraine-invasion-viktor-medvedchuk-1796774

Personal resentment and a desire for revenge were the driving factors behind Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine last February, an investigation has claimed.

Verstka, an independent Russian news outlet that was founded shortly after the conflict began, published a deep-dive report this week entitled “How Putin Came to Hate Ukraine,” which cites former and current officials in the Russian and Ukrainian governments. Kremlin reporter Ilya Zhegulev wrote that loyal Putin ally Viktor Medvedchuk is at the center of the Russian leader’s so-called “special military operation” in the neighboring country, and that he had already decided to attack Kyiv in February-March 2021.

Medvedchuk is a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian oligarch who was released by Kyiv in a prisoner swap with Russia in September 2022. The 68-year-old has close ties with Putin, who is believed to be the godfather of his youngest daughter.

Medvedchuk was the former leader of a pro-Russian opposition party in Ukraine, and was detained in April 2022 by Ukraine’s state security service, the SBU, after he fled house arrest while awaiting trial on treason charges. Kyiv has stripped him of his Ukrainian citizenship. [Excerpt]

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