Why does Putin insist Ukrainians and Russians are ‘one people’?

Why does Putin insist Ukrainians and Russians are ‘one people’?

Russian president Vladimir Putin does not seem interested in peace: Sunday’s missile strike on Sumy, the worst civilian attack this year, proves he is

Ruslanas Baranovas, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Seimas and Social Democrat, says that when discussing relations with Russia with partners from the European Union countries, he is constantly confronted with a strange universalist mindset: Russians are also people, they also want peace. It's as if all is not lost with Russia, as if it could change, like Germany after World War II, despite the fact that it is now waging an aggr…

In Russian thinking about war, civilians are part of the problem that needs to be radically addressed, says Michael Clark