Putin says ukraine is not a real country. He says it's a fiction created by communist russia. Yale historian timothy snider says, yes, it absolutely is. And if anything, be no more interesting.
Vladimir Putin says Ukraine isn’t a country. He’s wrong.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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