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<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/dmitry-medvedev-murdered-defector-maksim-kuzminov-was-dog-and-got-a-dogs-death">Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev</a> delivered a sweeping speech Monday claiming “Ukraine is definitely Russia” and spouting <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukraine-and-russia-turn-to-sabotage-plots-as-the-war-drags-on">anti-Ukraine rhetoric</a> aimed at erasing the country from the map.</p>
<p>“Our geostrategic space has been indivisible since the time of the ancient Russian state,” the former Russian president <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-ally-says-ukraine-is-definitely-russia-rules-out-talks-with-zelenskiy-2024-03-04/">said</a>, presenting a map showing the vast majority of Ukraine’s territory gobbled up by Russia. “This concept must disappear forever. Ukraine is definitely Russia.”</p>
<p>Medvedev’s map shows the borders of other countries, including Poland and Romania, changed as well.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/dmitry-medvedev-unveils-map-with-new-russian-borders-in-anti-ukraine-screed">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
“Our geostrategic space has been indivisible since the time of the ancient Russian state,” the former Russian president said, presenting a map showing the vast majority of Ukraine’s territory gobbled up by Russia. “This concept must disappear forever. Ukraine is definitely Russia.”
Medvedev’s map shows the borders of other countries, including Poland and Romania, changed as well.
