“Modern Ukraine was entirely created by Russia or, to be more precise, by Bolshevik, Communist Russia.”
What PolitiFact found
Parts of the territory of Ukraine were under the control of Poland, Lithuania, the Byzantine Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire for nearly 400 years before the Russians held sway.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Vladimir Putin (Russian president) made this claim around 21 February 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 February 2022, 2 days later. Its rating was “An inaccurate, one-sided view”.
Vladimir Putin has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- en.kremlin.ruhttp://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67828
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