Russian invasion of Ukraine/Reasons
- Vladimir Putin, “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians”, July 12, 2021
- Vladimir Putin, “Meeting with young entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists”, June 9, 2022
I think these would be what's summarized in the meme by "We're waging a genocidal conquest to end the Ukrainian state":
- Putin's speeches, you can check:
https://en.liberpedia.org/Vladimir_Vladimirovich_Putin
https://ru.liberpedia.org/%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%CC%81%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80_%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%CC%81%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%9F%D1%83%CC%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD
in particular:
"the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century." -> let's try to restore it http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/22931 http://kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/22931 "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians" -> title says it all http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181 http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181 "Why would he [Peter I] go there? He was returning and reinforcing, that is what he was doing. Clearly, it fell to our lot to return and reinforce as well." http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/68606 http://kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/68606 doesn't seem like much, but was picked on immediately by Putin's whole TV propaganda crew to mean expanding russian empire in Europe, watch the video: https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1535410185623281667 RIA Novosti articles: https://web.archive.org/web/20220226051154/https://ria.ru/20220226/rossiya-1775162336.html https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60562240
https://ria.ru/20220403/ukraina-1781469605.html "THREAD: Russian state-owned propaganda outlet RIA published the new programmatic article with the title "What Russia must do with Ukraine". The article reveals a detailed plan for a genocide, starting from full elimination of Ukrainian state. Details below." https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1510910740261134338 ... literally like in the meme.
bonus:
- Are We the Baddies? moment from russian soldiers: https://storage.googleapis.com/istories/investigations/2022/08/18/ti-voobshche-ponimaesh-chto-mi-fashisti/index.html