Russian Director of the Information and Press explains why Putin was justified in invading Ukraine

“Well, everything that was connected with ethnicity and culture in the first place. Even cookbooks were banned. Why? Because it was impossible to share borscht, well, it is impossible. It was supposed to belong to only one. Some one nation, one nationality it is impossible that it should be shared and that every housewife in every region could cook it in her own way - no! They didn't want to compromise. So this is what we're talking about. Xenophobia, naz1sm, extremism in all it's forms.”