[FLT-bird]

Putin has stated Ukraine should not exist as a separate country. Remind me when he said that of Finland.

You refer to a paper he wrote a year or two ago. If he actually believed that, why has he offered them terms that would allow them to be a fairly large sovereign country in control of their own affairs so long as they do not present a military threat to Russia?

[tlozo]

why has he offered them terms that would allow them to be a fairly large sovereign country

"Sovereign" country that's disarmed and only exists at the whim of Putin, who I'm sure, will have no more territorial ambitions.