All of Ukraine is ours' — Putin on Russia's territorial ambitions in Ukraine

The Kyiv Independent ^ | 20 Jun 2025 | Kateryna Hodunova and Francis Farrell

[MinorityRepublican]

Russian President Vladimir Putin said "all of Ukraine" belonged to Russia in a speech on June 20 at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, amid increasingly aggressive official statements about Moscow's final territorial ambitions in Ukraine.

Putin's claim was based on the false narrative often pushed both by himself as leader and by Russian propaganda that Russians and Ukrainians are "one people."

The narrative has long figured prominently in Putin's rhetoric, brought up as justification for its aggression in Ukraine.

In July 2021, just half a year before the full-scale invasion, the Russian leader stoked fears of a larger attack when he wrote and published an essay on the "historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians."

In response to the speech in St Petersburg, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha condemned Putin’s comments as "cynical," saying it showed “complete disregard for U.S. peace efforts."

"While the United States and the rest of the world have called for an immediate end to the killing, Russia's top war criminal discusses plans to seize more Ukrainian territory and kill more Ukrainians," he wrote in a post on X.

Putin made several other statements at the forum, some contradictory, about Moscow's aims in the war going forward.

"Wherever the foot of a Russian soldier steps is Russian land," Putin said, directly implying Russia's intention to continue occupying more than just the five Ukrainian regions that Moscow has illegally laid claim to: Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson oblasts, as well as the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

Sybiha said that "Russian soldier's foot" brings only "death, destruction, and devastation." He accused Putin of indifference toward his own troops, calling him “a mass murderer of his own people.”

"He already disposed one million Russian soldiers in a senseless bloodbath in Ukraine without achieving a single strategic goal. One million soldiers."

[Paladin2]

Pooty-Poot is all in on the ‘Rats’ understanding of the use of the term “Our Democracy”.

[JoSixChip]

Should have negotiated, now it’s too late.

[MplsSteve]

Putin is so in need of a few 9mm slugs in the back of his head.

[tlozo]

Russia's deputy foreign minister Ryabkov is demanding NATO withdraw from the Baltics.

Its the SAME demand Putin issued, before invading Ukraine.

Russia demands NATO roll back from East Europe and stay out of Ukraine 12/17/21

https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-unveils-security-guarantees-says-western-response-not-encouraging-2021-12-17/

Sergei Ryabkov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister responsible for U.S. relations, nonproliferation and arms control, told Russian state news agency TASS that the Ukraine war won’t end until NATO withdraws troops from the Baltics.

According to Newsweek, Ryabkov’s comments mark a shift in the Kremlin’s position, as he suggested that the conflict’s roots lie not only in Ukraine itself but in NATO’s eastward expansion. NATO maintains a strong military presence in the Baltic States, with multinational battle groups and brigades stationed in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

The Russian deputy foreign minister argued in the TASS interview that resolving the conflict in Ukraine requires addressing “the root causes.”

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news-corner/russia-ryabkov-tass-nato-eastward-expansion-baltics-withdrawal/

[JonPreston]

If the Kiev Independent says this, you gotta go with it.

[mass55th]

You’re welcome to it. No more money coming out of my pocket for it.

[SaxxonWoods]

Green T-shirt hasn’t commented yet?

[maro]

Another Putin would replace him and the war with Ukraine would continue.

[Apparatchik]

Leave to the Putler propaganda crowd to deny it ever happened, despite it being a matter of record, because they see the word “Kyiv” and automatically think it’s a lie. That’s paranoia.. Try this one on, Goebbels - same report, from Reuters:

Putin Quips That the 'The Whole of Ukraine Is Ours' in Theory

[Glad2bnuts]

All of Ukraine did belong to the Soviet Union, that would be the meaning of “belonged”.

[JonPreston]

If it’s a matter of record, show us.

[Allegra]

Green T-shirt hasn’t commented yet?

He’s too busy demanding billions of dollars off of anybody who will listen.

President Trump ditching him at the G7 earlier this week upset his whole begging schedule.

But Zidget will work Putin’s latest stupid comments into his next sales pitch.

[lodi90]

Putin proving once againt there is nothing to negotiate with a genocidal Russian revanchist.

[JonPreston]

Donald J Trump, the Peace & Prosperity president.

NOW - Trump says "intelligence community is wrong" that Iran is not building nuclear weapons.

pic.twitter.com/EynipJF50z— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) June 20, 2025

[Apparatchik]

Even TASS is reporting Putin’s remarks, Einstein. Sheesh.

[Kazan]

I hope he's right. It would save US and EU taxpayers billions of dollars of he is.

But, most likely, everything east of Dnieper river will be Russian. And, possibly Odessa.

[JonPreston]

I don't take TASS seriously, and I certainly don't take you seriously

[Drew68]

Notice the center patch. "I will take what's mine."

[LastDayz]

All your Ukraine belong to us...