In one of his most aggressive declarations of the war, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated at a St. Petersburg forum that “all of Ukraine is ours,” asserting that Russians and Ukrainians are “one nation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested during an economic forum that the "whole of Ukraine" belongs to his country, even though Russia only controls about a fifth of Ukrainian territory. He made the comments on June 20 at the St.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said 'all of Ukraine' belonged to Russia in a speech on June 20 at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, amid increasingly bullish official statements about Moscow's final territorial ambitions in Ukraine.