Donbas and Golden Ukrainian Soil – What Putin Said About Ukraine During His Year-End Press Conference

What Putin said about Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, Kremlin influence over the leaders of the so—called Luhansk and Donetsk “people’s republics,” Ukrainian land reform, and who, by his words, “grabbed me by the throat” in Minsk, when will the eastern Ukrainian border be closed, payments by Gazprom to Ukraine’s Naftogaz, and what he thinks about presidential term limits in Russia – in our piece.