Putin portrayed Ukrainian fascists as a threat to the Russian-speaking population in the east and south (shown in red on the first map), and he annexed Crimea and armed Russian separatists in the far-east Donbass region. Ukrainian nationalists are strongest in the far-west Ukrainian-speaking region around Lviv (shown in yellow), which was part of interwar Poland. Many Ukrainians in the central region speak a mixture of Ukrainian and Russian (shown in orange). More
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Zoltan Grossman | Radio Free (2022-03-02T10:00:02+00:00) Ukraine Maps Tell a Different Story Than Putin’s Claims. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2022/03/02/ukraine-maps-tell-a-different-story-than-putins-claims-2/
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