Putin Claims Western Ukraine Was a Stalin Gift, Predicts Reversion to Poland, Hungary, Romania
Russian President Vladimir Putin asserted that Western Ukrainian lands were transferred by Stalin after WWII only within a unified state, and claimed these regions would historically revert to Poland, Hungary, and Romania.
President Putin stated that the western territories of Ukraine were handed over by Stalin after World War Two, but solely as part of a single, unified Soviet state, without anticipating today's geopolitical realities.
He predicted that these western regions would historically revert to their previous owners—Poland, Hungary, and Romania.
Source: First Squawk