Before Soviet power, there was no Ukraine in human history, - Putin. VIDEO

Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine did not exist before the creation of the Ukrainian SSR in 1919. Putin spoke about this with the head of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, Valery Zorkin.

The head of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation showed Putin a copy of a map drawn up by the French during the reign of Louis XIV, Censor.NET reports.

"These lands were simply part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and then they asked to be part of the Moscow Kingdom. And then, after the October Revolution, all sorts of quasi-state formations began to form, the Soviet government created Soviet Ukraine, as is well known. Before that, there was no Ukraine in the history of mankind," Putin said.