Yeah, I know. The same map keeps popping out from time to time since about 2015. I think it originates from some LDPR guy.
After some digging, it originates from 2014:
TVP Info, 23 April 2014 "State Duma to the Polish MFA: Let's Partition Ukraine" supposedly from a letter from Zhirinovsky. - He was unhinged enough to be seen making those claims and the west could be seen using those as proof Russia was out to get Ukraine from day 1. Genuine proposals or propaganda? Who knows. The war did indeed happen and claims that Poland is gonna march into Lviv are still showing up from time to time, in spite of them being frankly unlikely.
Additional context: Poland was ruled by libs back then... but very atlanticist ones that still had ambitions to for example overthrow the government of Belarus and indeed Ukraine (pre-Maidan), so while less reactionary, state media had still a heavy baggage of bias in foreign policy questions.
Yeah, I know. The same map keeps popping out from time to time since about 2015. I think it originates from some LDPR guy.
After some digging, it originates from 2014:
TVP Info, 23 April 2014 "State Duma to the Polish MFA: Let's Partition Ukraine" supposedly from a letter from Zhirinovsky. - He was unhinged enough to be seen making those claims and the west could be seen using those as proof Russia was out to get Ukraine from day 1. Genuine proposals or propaganda? Who knows. The war did indeed happen and claims that Poland is gonna march into Lviv are still showing up from time to time, in spite of them being frankly unlikely.
Additional context: Poland was ruled by libs back then... but very atlanticist ones that still had ambitions to for example overthrow the government of Belarus and indeed Ukraine (pre-Maidan), so while less reactionary, state media had still a heavy baggage of bias in foreign policy questions.