{"id":536473,"date":"2022-03-02T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=235647"},"modified":"2022-03-02T10:00:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T10:00:02","slug":"ukraine-maps-tell-a-different-story-than-putins-claims-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/03\/02\/ukraine-maps-tell-a-different-story-than-putins-claims-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Maps Tell a Different Story Than Putin\u2019s Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Putin portrayed Ukrainian fascists as a threat to the Russian-speaking population in the east and south (shown in red on the first map), and he annexed Crimea and armed Russian separatists in the far-east Donbass region. Ukrainian nationalists are strongest in the far-west Ukrainian-speaking region around Lviv (shown in yellow), which was part of interwar Poland. Many Ukrainians in the central region speak a mixture of Ukrainian and Russian (shown in orange). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/03\/02\/ukraine-maps-tell-a-different-story-than-putins-claims\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/03\/02\/ukraine-maps-tell-a-different-story-than-putins-claims\/\">Ukraine Maps Tell a Different Story Than Putin&#8217;s Claims<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/03\/02\/ukraine-maps-tell-a-different-story-than-putins-claims\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin portrayed Ukrainian fascists as a threat to the Russian-speaking population in the east and south (shown in red on the first map), and he annexed Crimea and armed Russian separatists in the far-east Donbass region. Ukrainian nationalists are stro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1378,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536474,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536473\/revisions\/536474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}