Putin Confirms: Denazification Is a Primary Goal of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Putin Confirms: Denazification Is a Primary Goal of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Tucker asks Putin, “Have you achieved your aims?”

Putin answers, “No, we haven’t achieved our aims yet because one of them is denazification. This means the prohibition of all kinds of neo-nazi movements.”

Putin claims that certain Ukrainian nationalists, such as Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych, collaborated with Hitler, committing atrocities against Polish, Jewish, and Russian populations.

He condemns the modern-day glorification of these figures in Ukraine, including erecting monuments and celebrating them as national heroes, likening some contemporary Ukrainian nationalist displays to those of Nazi Germany.

Putin argues against the foundation of Ukrainian national identity on what he perceives as Nazi ideology, asserting that Ukrainians are part of the broader Russian people, while also acknowledging their right to self-identify as a separate nation, provided it’s not based on Nazism.

“I say that Ukrainians are part of the one Russian people...but not on the basis of Nazism, the Nazi ideology.”