We have already discussed this over and over. If you go back in time, it was actually Kyiv where Russia (the Russ of Kyiv) was born. But that is just history, and it is for the people who actually live there to choose their destiny, and as I said, Putin has failed to demonstrate any value or attractiveness to the old Soviet Republics - not that he has tried much - and now has to resort to aggression.

As Putin lives in a world of Cold War, you live in a world in which there is an inherent "god given right to rule" a territory, regardless of what the people living there think, want or decide. From the XX century you have made a great progress into the medieval ages.