Putin’s mistake in a 400-year-old map and the corresponding “response”.

Vladimir Putin tried to support his position on Ukraine, which according to him is not a country, using a 400-year-old map, but things did not turn out as he wanted. This is because the map categorically refuted it.

In a meeting with the President of Russia’s Constitutional Court, Valery Zorkin, the two look at a map drawn by a 17th-century cartographer for King Louis XIV of France.

The Kremlin released a video of the meeting, with Putin and Zorkin holding the map As evidence that the Ukrainian nation is a historical fiction. The map that Putin examined appears to be a copy From a map made in 1674 By French cartographer Hubert Gilot, it shows parts of Eastern Europe and Asia, with cities and territories marked.

Putin took the opportunity to back up one of the main arguments he made for Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. This means that the latter is not a real state and therefore must be incorporated into Russia.

“The Soviet government created Soviet Ukraine. This is known to all. Until then, there was no Ukraine in human historyPutin said characteristically.

But in fact, Ukraine is clearly visible on the map.

The phrase in question translates to “Ukraine or the country of the CossacksIt is situated next to the Dnipro River which runs through modern Ukraine. The capital city of Kyiv, written on the map as KEO, can also be seen nearby.

At the time, what was to become Russia was known in parts of Europe as the Grand Duchy of Muscovy, while Polish nobility ruled large areas of what is now Ukraine.

in thesis Published shortly before the 2022 invasion, Putin claimed that Ukrainians and Russians were “one people” torn apart by hostile foreign powers, and saw his invasion as a way to reunite them.

Historian Bjorn Alexander Dobbin, Writing for the London School of Economics He said that in the 17th century, when the map was drawn, Ukraine had a separate culture and language from Russia, and Cossack tribes appeared demanding independence from the Polish and Moscow rulers.

In 1790, much of present-day Ukraine was absorbed by the Russian Empire. Ukraine briefly gained independence after the Russian Revolution of 1917, but was soon absorbed into the Soviet Union.

Only after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 did Ukraine become an independent country again, a development accepted by Russia at the time.

but “Ukrainian realpolitik entities fighting for their independence or independence existed long before thisDuben Books.

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