Putin says ‘the whole of Ukraine is ours’ in theory, may take city of Sumy

However, Putin, speaking at an international economic forum in St Petersburg, said that Russia did not doubt Ukraine’s right to sovereignty, but when Ukraine declared its independence in 1991, it was a “neutral state”.
Putin said that Russia fought in Ukraine to protect its own security and said that Russia answered a question about the war targets.
“We have a word or analogy, Put Putin said.
“Where a Russian soldier’s feet stepped, this is ours.”
Kiev and his Western allies rejected their allegations illegally to the four Ukrainian regions of Moscow and the Crimea, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy repeatedly rejected the idea that the Russians and Ukrainians were a person. Putin said that the Russian forces made a buffer region in the Sumy region of Ukraine to protect Russian territory, and the same troops did not seize the control of Sumy’s regional capital.