{"id":1250604,"date":"2025-06-23T11:43:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T08:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/he-always-lies-how-to-understand-putins-words-all-of-ukraine-is-ours\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T01:00:08","slug":"he-always-lies-how-to-understand-putins-words-all-of-ukraine-is-ours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/he-always-lies-how-to-understand-putins-words-all-of-ukraine-is-ours\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;He Always Lies&#8221;: How to Read Putin\u2019s Claim that &#8220;All of Ukraine Is Ours&#8221; Without Falling into His Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Source: Author&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MykolaKniazhytsky\/posts\/pfbid0mNMctyQx5KKv7H7oAegxQQGVC3pFHTqe7syhjZEqp5QHgZsBWk8RfFrJ8M6fXhFzl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>How should we interpret Putin\u2019s claim that \u201call of Ukraine is ours\u201d? In the same way, we treat everything else he has said in the past \u2014 as entirely untrue, and everything he will say in the future \u2014 equally unreliable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"125\" data-end=\"323\">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.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"325\" data-end=\"510\">Each of these wars may differ in form, but they share a single goal: to break the will of Ukrainians to resist \u2014 to push them into pressuring their own government to surrender to Putin.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"512\" data-end=\"943\">Every public statement Putin makes is simply another act of information warfare. Russia cannot defeat Ukraine\u2019s military on the battlefield. It cannot destroy every home, school, or playground with missile strikes. But, according to the Kremlin\u2019s plan, these chaotic attacks are designed to create a psychological backdrop \u2014 one that suggests resistance is futile, and that the only way to end the horror is to demand capitulation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"945\" data-end=\"1205\">Against this backdrop, Putin\u2019s claim that \u201call of Ukraine is ours\u201d is neither a political declaration nor a strategic vision. It is an informational weapon aimed not at reason, but at the human psyche \u2014 an attempt to instill fear, hopelessness, and exhaustion.<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/massive-strikes-on-ukraine-do-russian-terrorists-have-logic\/\">Massive Strikes on Ukraine: Is There Any Logic Behind Russian Terrorism?<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p data-start=\"59\" data-end=\"293\">All of Putin\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"295\" data-end=\"461\">There\u2019s no need to search for hidden meanings in his words. There\u2019s nothing there but the usual mix of lies, intimidation, and manipulation \u2014 and there never will be.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"463\" data-end=\"584\">Every time you see a headline that begins with \u201cPutin said&#8230;,\u201d just remember: Putin always lies. And he will keep lying.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"586\" data-end=\"795\">Ask the Iranians, for example. Just a few months ago, Putin signed a \u201cstrategic partnership\u201d agreement with Tehran in exchange for deliveries of Shahed drones. How is that partnership working out for them now?<\/p>\n<p><em>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiia-ne-vykliuchaie-zakhoplennia-sum-osnovni-zaiavy-putina-na-ekonomichnomu-forumi-v-peterburzi\/\">he planned to seize all of Ukraine<\/a> because he considered it &#8220;ours,&#8221; that is, &#8220;Russian.&#8221; Putin also cynically said that in the Russian Federation there is an &#8220;old rule: wherever a Russian soldier steps, it is ours.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 Materials published in the \u201cOPINIONS\u201d section reflect the opinion of the author of the publication, who bears full responsibility for the accuracy of the information.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 The editorial staff of prm.ua may not share the opinions expressed in the author&#8217;s material.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 The owner of the webpage in the \u201cOPINIONS\u201d section is the author of the publication.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Author&#8217;s Facebook page How should we interpret Putin\u2019s claim that \u201call of Ukraine is ours\u201d? In the same way, we treat everything else he has said in the past \u2014 as entirely untrue, and everything he will say in the future \u2014 equally unreliable. It is now clear that Russia is waging not one, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1250589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76874,76893],"class_list":["post-1250604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-war","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251014,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250604\/revisions\/1251014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1250589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}