Ukraine war: President Putin speech fact-checked Published 1 hour ago Image source, Getty Images President Vladimir Putin addressed the Russian public in a national address which lasted for almost two hours. In the speech, he made a series of claims about the war in Ukraine and was highly critical of Western countries. We've looked into some of his statements. "The neo-Nazi regime that set up in Ukraine after 2014" Mr Putin has repeatedly made baseless claims about a "neo-Nazi regime" in Ukraine as a justification for Russia's invasion of the country. In Ukraine's last parliamentary election in 2019, support for...