”Big Russia and Little Russia — Ukraine,"

 

陰謀論者さんはロシアの主張する「東部ウクライナでロシア系住民がウクライナ軍によって虐殺されている」を信じているようなんだけど、OSCE（欧州安全保障協力機構）の停戦監視団が居たのに、どうやってこっそり大虐殺とかできるんですかね・・・もう設定の時点で話に無理がある。

— JSF (@rockfish31) March 2, 2022

昼間、ワイドショーみてたら、OSCなんちゃらとか言ってたけど、 

OSCE: Russia’s Claim of ‘Genocide’ in Donbas is Reprehensible Falsehood February 17, 2022

 このことだね。 テレビ朝日の解説では、

  George. Ukraine is not even a country.”
ウクライナは国家でさえない、

というプーチンの言葉も紹介されていた。 

  Putin to the West: Hands off Ukraine By James Marson / Kiev Monday, May 25, 2009

  "He has a discussion there about Big Russia and Little Russia — Ukraine," Russian news wires quoted Putin as saying after laying a wreath in Moscow at the grave of Denikin, who is now portrayed as a Russian patriot. "He says that no one should be allowed to interfere in relations between us; they have always been the business of Russia itself." (See TIME's Person of the Year: Vladimir Putin.)

Putin's words are seen as the latest in an ongoing volley of pointed warnings to the West not to meddle in Ukraine, which has such close historical and cultural ties to Russia that the Kremlin considers the country firmly within its sphere of interests.

Moscow has reacted angrily to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko's attempts in recent years to gain NATO membership and to a recent agreement in March under which the European Union would help modernize Ukraine's aging gas-transport system.

 

Putin is not known for his tact when speaking of Russia's western neighbor, which declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. In April 2008, a source told Russia's Kommersant newspaper how Putin described Ukraine to George Bush at a NATO meeting in Bucharest: "You don't understand, George, that Ukraine is not even a state. What is Ukraine? Part of its territories is Eastern Europe, but the greater part is a gift from us."

ウクライナは小さなロシアであり、Natoへの参加は許さじ、と。２００９年の記事。

かなり以前から、こうした主張はしていたわけだね。