CNN CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera February 21, 2022 18:54:00
>> reporter: that seems like the direction he's going in. in fact, this may turn out to be a rather maximalist statement, rather than just recognizing the independence of those two tiny parts of ukraine, this seems to be president putin laying out the history, blaming lenin and stalin for creating in his words a ukraine that was part, you know, part a product of the first world war, and parts being shared with germany, and other parts being parcelled out from poland. this seems to be putin laying out his case that ukraine is always part of russia, historically, cultural, ethnic, religious ties...