“Ukraine is an artificial state.”
What PolitiFact found
Documented references to Ukraine are centuries old, and Putin shared a distorted view of Russia and Ukraine's history, experts told PolitiFact.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Vladimir Putin (Russian president) made this claim around 6 February 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 February 2024, 4 days later. Its rating was “Twisted history”.
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
- tuckercarlson.comhttps://tuckercarlson.com/the-vladimir-putin-interview/
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