Russian Court Head Presents 17th Century Map to Putin in Attempt to Prove Ukraine Never Existed Independently: Backfires as Map Shows Otherwise

The head of the Russian Constitutional Court, Valery Sorkin, brought a very special object with him to a meeting with Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin. Sorkin presented a 17th century map of France. Provinces, peoples or principalities that are under the rule of the Russian tsar are listed there.

Sorkin wants to use the map to show Putin that Ukraine never existed independently. Exactly how the Kremlin spread it as a narrative. But a closer look reveals that Ukraine is clearly marked on the map shown by Putin. Crimea is also listed as a separate area from the Crimean Tatars.

Putin video causes ridicule: “Map like that of Captain Nemo or Sinbad the Sailor”

The scene shows the history of the Kremlin as an example.
On the map by Frenchman Guillaume Sanson, Ukraine is marked as the land of the Cossacks.
Sanson also includes western Ukraine in what was then the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania. Russia is also not presented as an independent state.

The video caused ridicule on the Russian network. It’s like “looking at the map of Captain Nemo or Sinbad the Sailor,” writes one user in the comment column of a Russian newspaper.

Vladimir Putin repeatedly denies that Ukraine is an independent state. With this rhetoric he justifies his war of aggression against the neighboring country.