Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, together with the head of the constitutional court of the Russian Federation Valery Zorkin, played another pseudo-historical propaganda show on camera, looking at a French map of the 17th century and allegedly not seeing Ukraine there. This was stated by an officer of the Israel Defense Forces, military analyst Yigal Levin, who gave an online link to the same map, where a large inscription is visible - "

According to an expert, this map by Guillaume Sanson (1633-1703) is in the French online library Gallica.

" In the meantime, any person without serious problems with vision or mentality can look at the map himself and see a large inscription "

At the same time, Crimea and part of the south-east of Ukraine on the same map do not belong to the Moscow principality, but to the Crimean Tatars.

Recall that on May 23, Putin once again shared his " Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation showed Putin a copy of the French map of the XVII century. Examining it with the air of a connoisseur, the Russian dictator noted that before the creation of the Ukrainian SSR, "