Ukraine's Largest Industrial Chocolate Maker

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In 2013, Putin started speaking in a way about Ukraine that he hasn't before. He decided the European Union was harmful because it tended to consolidate democracy. The first evidence of that turn was that Russia put a lot of pressure on Ukraine not to sign an association agreement with the EU. In February 2014, there's been Russian power already in a good deal of Ukraine before this latest and terrible invasion began.

Vladimir Putin believes Ukraine belongs to Russia, and he used that a pretense to invade. In an episode originally released in February, historian Timothy Snyder explains why Putin is wrong.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Noel King.

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