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Editor’s note, February 23, 11:50 pm: In a Wednesday night speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that a “special military operation” would begin in Ukraine. Multiple news organizations reported explosions in multiple cities and evidence of large-scale military operations happening across Ukraine. Find the latest here . Perhaps the biggest question behind the The Russian president’s decision to deploy large numbers of troops to eastern Ukraine has already triggered Putin’s clearest answer yet came in a speech delivered on Monday. He believes that Ukraine is an illegitimate country that exists on land that’s historically and rightfully Russian: “Ukraine actually never had stable traditions of real statehood,” as he puts it. The overtures to the West from the current government of Ukraine are an attempt to stand up to this false regime, as is its antagonistic stance toward Moscow. This combination — an anti-Russian regime in what Putin views as rightfully Russian territory populated by rightfully Russian people — is unacceptable to him. “Ukraine might have remained a sovereign state so long as it had a pro-Putin government,” says Seva Gunitsky, a political scientist at the University of Toronto who studies Russia. “Reuniting the lands formally would probably not have been at the forefront of the agenda if Putin felt he had enough political support from the Ukrainian regime.” Putin’s basic claim — that there is no historical Ukrainian nation worthy of present-day sover...

Recommended • Ukraine news – live: Putin admits Russia having ‘very difficult time’ as he blames ‘Western elites’ for war • Vladimir Putin claims ‘paedophilia is normal’ in West in bizarre speech • Watch live as Putin makes state of the nation address ahead of first anniversary of Ukraine war Mr Putin traditionally addresses a large audience of lawmakers and state officials and the speech will be broadcast by all Russian state TV channels. While the Constitution mandates that the president deliver the speech annually, Mr Putin did not give one in 2022, as his troops rolled into Ukraine and suffered repeated setbacks, prompting him to cancel it in December. Now the address comes days before the war’s first anniversary on Friday. Kremlin spokesman Senior Russian lawmaker and leader of the nationalist LDPR party Leonid Slutsky was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying that Mr Putin will set priorities “that will deprive our enemies of the hope to defeat Russia, weaken it or try to subdue it to their neo-colonial leadership”. Political analyst Tatyana Stanovaya said the address “was expected to be very hawkish, aimed at defiantly breaking off relations with the West”. In the wake of Mr Biden’s visit to Kyiv “additional edits can be made to make it even harsher”. Mr Peskov told reporters that the speech’s delay had to do with Mr Putin’s “work schedule” but Russian media reports linked it to the multiple setbacks Russian forces have suffered on the battlefield in Ukraine. The Russian ...

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An emergency TV and radio broadcast apparently from President Vladimir Putin announcing that Ukraine had invaded Russia was the result of a hacking attack, the Kremlin said Monday. Putin “definitely” made no appeal to the nation and the hacked broadcast shown on several networks has been eliminated, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according to the state-run Tass news service. There was no indication of who may have been involved and of how the broadcast appeared to include the president’s voice and image.