Russian propaganda from 2019: "How Russia will have no choice but to preemptively attack Ukraine."
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/report/russophobic-and-nazi-ukraine-will-be-destroyed-by-russia/
After the 2014 coup, Ukraine essentially ended being a state and turned into a former country. Historically Ukrainian territories were part of Rus, then Russian empire, and then USSR, which is a big Russia. Since 2014 the West, a global Russian enemy succeeded in reformatting Russias former part, non-country Ukraine, into Anti-Russia.
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In other words, Ukraine has turned into a weapon of the vicious enemy and a hostile arena towards Russia and all Russian people. The Anti-Russia existence close to Russias borders is wrong and strategically harmful for Russia. Russia will not tolerate it and, sooner or later, this hostile springboard will be destroyed. Russians of Novorossiya, Malorossiya (Little Russia), and other historic regions will not leave to Russophobic Ukraine any territories.
Exactly the same talking-points Russia uses today: Ukraine is not a country and everyone over there is a Nazi and everybody hates Russia and Russia has no choice but to preemptively attack Ukraine.
Putin has been secretly building the case for war among the russian people since at least 2019!!!