Former State Duma deputy and opposition leader Dmitry Gudkov said that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to annex new territories, not “unite fraternal peoples.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – July 14, 2021 \u2013 Ukraine News<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is how Gudkov commented on Putin’s article about Ukrainians and Russians on Ukraine 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Honestly, I did not see anything new for myself in this article. It is clear that he falsified historical facts, but it is all the political language <\/a>of the last century – “Russia and Ukraine are one people” and so on. In fact, everything I saw in this article – this is what he wants to command in Ukraine, “- said Gudkov.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to him, “in any country there is a struggle between archaism and progress,” and Putin “clearly represents the forces of archaism.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “So he really doesn’t want to unite any peoples, he just wants new territories, because he lives in the last century, where there are metropolises and colonies … What do a single <\/a>people mean? Even the Russian people – what is he united? We are from “Putin is not the only one, we are his opponents. I believe that Putin not only does not care about the unification of the two peoples, but he also does not pay attention to the Russian people at all,” said the Russian politician.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Putin wrote an article “on the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians.” In it, he tries to justify his view that the peoples are “united” by language and the Orthodox faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Putin also believes that the Ukrainian authorities have decided to justify Ukraine’s independence by “denying its past.” The Russian president accuses Ukraine of “forcible assimilation” of Russians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, Putin accuses Western countries of creating an “anti-Russia<\/a>” project to sever relations between Ukraine and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Putin, modern Ukraine is a “child of the Soviet era.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n