From: Newsweek By Brendan Cole
Vladimir Putin has said that Russia was unwilling to give up territory in Ukraine that had been “conquered,” in what appeared to be a shift in language over the reasons for his full-scale invasion.
The Russia president has used various arguments to justify the war, such as protecting Russian speakers in the Donbas region, pushing back against the encroachment of NATO towards Russian borders and “denazifying” Ukraine —a claim dismissed by Kyiv and the international community.
The Kremlin has kept a tight lid on descriptions of the war, which is officially referred to by state media outlets as a “special military operation,” although at the end of 2022, ten months into the conflict, Putin first referred to it as a “war” in comments to reporters.
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