Vladimir Putin is making “perverse and preposterous” claims about Russia’s past to justify his invasion of Ukraine, one of Britain’s most eminent historians has warned as he hit out over the “terrible damage” that distortions of the truth can inflict.
Sir David Cannadine said the Kremlin leader – who has claimed that Ukraine is not a country but part of Russia – was using the “deliberate manipulation and falsification” of Russian history to justify “very bad ends”.
