Redigerer Den russisk-ukrainske krisen 2021–2022 (avsnitt)

=== Putins perspektiv på Ukraina ===
I juli 2021 utga den russiske presidenten [[Vladimir Putin]] en avhandling kalt ''Om den historiske enheten mellom russere og ukrainere'', der han gjentok sitt syn om at russere og ukrainere er ett folk.<ref>{{cite web|last=Vladimir|first=Putin|author-link=Vladimir Putin|date=2021-07-12|title=Article by Vladimir Putin 'On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians'|url=http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125053520/http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181|archive-date=2021-01-25|publisher=The Kremlin|quote=During the recent Direct Line, when I was asked about Russian-Ukrainian relations, I said that Russians and Ukrainians were one people – a single whole. These words were not driven by some short-term considerations or prompted by the current political context. It is what I have said on numerous occasions and what I firmly believe. I therefore feel it necessary to explain my position in detail and share my assessments of today's situation.}}</ref> Og han argumenterte videre at «oppdelingen av Russland, Ukraina og Belarus i separate stater er kunstig, delvis et resultat av politiske feil begått under sovjettiden, delvis drevet av 'et anti-russisk prosjekt' støttet av USA».<ref>{{Kilde www|url=https://www.dagsavisen.no/nyheter/verden/2022/01/26/historien-om-ukraina-konflikten-som-aldri-dor-ut/|tittel=Historien om Ukraina – konflikten som aldri dør ut|besøksdato=2022-02-12|fornavn=Av NTB|etternavn=nyheter|språk=no|verk=Dagsavisen}}</ref> Putin har argumentert med at Ukraina er et kunstig produkt av Sovjetunionen og har uttalt at muligheten for NATO-medlemskap er «rød linje» for Kreml.<ref name=":2" /> 

Den amerikanske historikeren [[Timothy Snyder]] beskrev Putins tanker som [[imperialisme]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Timothy D.|first=Snyder|author-link=Timothy D. Snyder|date=2022-01-18|title=How to think about war in Ukraine|url=https://snyder.substack.com/p/how-to-think-about-war-in-ukraine|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119065436/https://snyder.substack.com/p/how-to-think-about-war-in-ukraine|archive-date=2022-01-19|access-date=2021-01-25|website=Thinking about... (newsletter)|quote=Nationality is about the way that people in the present think about the what is to come.  If Ukrainians regard themselves as a national community with a future together in a state, then the issue is settled.  Historically speaking, the idea that a dictator in another country decides who is a nation and who is not is known as imperialism.}}</ref> mens den britiske journalisten Edward Lucas kalte det [[historisk revisjonisme]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Edward|first=Lucas|date=2020-09-15|title=Why Putin's history essay requires a rewrite|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-putins-history-essay-requires-a-rewrite-6nzjzbqjb|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125143913/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-putins-history-essay-requires-a-rewrite-6nzjzbqjb|archive-date=2022-01-25|access-date=2022-01-25|work=[[The Times]]}}</ref> Andre kjennere og eksperter mener den russiske ledelsen har et forvrengt syn på det moderne Ukraina og landets historie.<ref>{{cite web|last=Andrew|first=Roth|date=2021-12-07|title=Putin's Ukraine rhetoric driven by distorted view of neighbour|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/07/putins-ukraine-rhetoric-driven-by-distorted-view-of-neighbour|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207180813/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/07/putins-ukraine-rhetoric-driven-by-distorted-view-of-neighbour|archive-date=2021-12-07|access-date=2021-01-25|work=[[The Guardian]]|publication-place=[[Moskva]]|quote=Putin has threatened a broader war in Ukraine over Nato enlargement, demanding “legal guarantees” to ensure Ukraine does not join the military alliance or become a kind of “unofficial” member hosting troops or defence infrastructure. But that fear has gone hand-in-hand with chauvinistic bluster that indicates Moscow has a distorted view of modern Ukraine and the goals it wants to achieve there.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Peter|last8=Brian|publisher=[[Atlantic Council]]|access-date=2021-01-25|archive-date=2021-07-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715191212/https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-new-ukraine-essay-reflects-imperial-ambitions/|url-status=live|url=https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-new-ukraine-essay-reflects-imperial-ambitions/|title=Putin's new Ukraine essay reveals imperial ambitions|date=2021-07-15|first9=Kuzio|last9=Taras|first8=Bonner|first7=Fedtsjenko|first=Dickinson|last7=Jevhen|first6=Gontsjarenko|last6=Oleksiy|first5=Whitmore|last5=Brian|first4=Motyl|last4=Alexander|first3=Lubkivsky|last3=Danylo|first2=Haring|last2=Melinda|quote=Vladimir Putin’s inaccurate and distorted claims are neither new nor surprising. They are just the latest example of gaslighting by the Kremlin leader. This, after all, is the man who famously told US President George W. Bush that Ukraine was not a real country during a widely reported exchange at the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest. Putin’s claim that the “true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible only in partnership with Russia” is grotesquely disingenuous. For Ukraine, partnership with Russia has mainly meant subjugation by Russia.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Andrew|first=Wilson|date=2021-12-23|title=Russia and Ukraine: 'One People' as Putin Claims?|url=https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/russia-and-ukraine-one-people-putin-claims|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124130721/https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/russia-and-ukraine-one-people-putin-claims/|archive-date=2022-01-24|access-date=2022-01-25|publisher=[[Royal United Services Institute]]|quote=Putin’s key trope is that Ukrainians and Russians are ‘one people’, and he calls them both ‘Russian’. He starts with a myth of common origin: ‘Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians are all descendants of Ancient Rus', which was the largest state in Europe’ from the 9th–13th centuries AD. Here, Putin uses the right word – Rus’ – not the modern word for ‘Russia’, which is Rossiya, a Hellenism only introduced in the 17th century.}}</ref>