“He Always Lies”: How to Read Putin’s Claim that “All of Ukraine Is Ours” Without Falling into His Trap

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How should we interpret Putin’s claim that “all of Ukraine is ours”? In the same way, we treat everything else he has said in the past — as entirely untrue, and everything he will say in the future — equally unreliable.

It is now clear that Russia is waging not one, but three separate wars against Ukraine: a ground war along the front line, an aerial war with missiles and drones, and a war in the information space.

Each of these wars may differ in form, but they share a single goal: to break the will of Ukrainians to resist — to push them into pressuring their own government to surrender to Putin.

Every public statement Putin makes is simply another act of information warfare. Russia cannot defeat Ukraine’s military on the battlefield. It cannot destroy every home, school, or playground with missile strikes. But, according to the Kremlin’s plan, these chaotic attacks are designed to create a psychological backdrop — one that suggests resistance is futile, and that the only way to end the horror is to demand capitulation.

Against this backdrop, Putin’s claim that “all of Ukraine is ours” is neither a political declaration nor a strategic vision. It is an informational weapon aimed not at reason, but at the human psyche — an attempt to instill fear, hopelessness, and exhaustion.

All of Putin’s statements about Ukraine, without exception, are aimed at one thing: convincing Ukrainians that they have no choice but to surrender. The Russian dictator wants the very people he tries to kill every day to believe him.

There’s no need to search for hidden meanings in his words. There’s nothing there but the usual mix of lies, intimidation, and manipulation — and there never will be.

Every time you see a headline that begins with “Putin said…,” just remember: Putin always lies. And he will keep lying.

Ask the Iranians, for example. Just a few months ago, Putin signed a “strategic partnership” agreement with Tehran in exchange for deliveries of Shahed drones. How is that partnership working out for them now?

As a reminder, on June 20, Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin made a series of cynical statements regarding the course of the war with Ukraine. He made it clear that he planned to seize all of Ukraine because he considered it “ours,” that is, “Russian.” Putin also cynically said that in the Russian Federation there is an “old rule: wherever a Russian soldier steps, it is ours.”

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