A new school textbook introduced in Moscow on Monday claims Russia was "forced" to send soldiers into Ukraine in 2022, according to Reuters. Russian President Vladimir Putin has often characterized his war in Ukraine as an attempt to thwart Western forces backing Kyiv against Russia.

A new school textbook in Russia is teaching children that Moscow was “forced” to invade Ukraine as it likens the conflict to the Soviet Union’s battle against Nazi Germany in

Russia claimed its troops had captured a strategically important town in eastern Ukraine as part of a grinding campaign to weaken Kyiv’s grip on the country’s industrial heartland, while uncertainty over the continued flow of U.