Conservative commentator Candace Owens is siding with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin's model of Ukrainian historical past.

"Ukraine wasn't a factor till 1989. Ukraine was created by the Russians...They communicate Russian," Owens stated on her speak present Tuesday.

Putin has repeatedly claimed that Ukraine was created by Russia when defending his choice to launch a full-scale invasion of the neighboring nation late final month.

"Fashionable Ukraine was fully and absolutely created by Russia, extra particularly the Bolshevik, communist Russia," Putin stated in a speech addressing the nation simply days earlier than the invasion started.

"This course of started virtually instantly after the 1917 revolution, and furthermore, Lenin and his associates did it within the sloppiest approach in relation to Russia — by dividing, tearing from her items of her personal historic territory," the president continued.

Whereas Ukraine and Russia have a shared historical past and their tradition is deeply intertwined, Ukraine's capital of Kyiv was established a whole lot of years earlier than Moscow and it was the federal government created by Lenin that will ultimately finish the unbiased Ukrainian state within the early 1900s.

It was not till 1991 that the Ukrainian folks efficiently gained again their independence after overwhelmingly voting to go away the Soviet Union.

For the reason that Soviet Union collapsed, there have been tensions between Russia and Ukraine over Ukraine's allegiances with Western nations.

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On her present on Tuesday, Candace Owens agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin's evaluation that Russia created Ukraine. “Ukraine wasn't a factor till 1989," she stated. "Ukraine was created by the Russians.” Pictured, Owens is seen on set of "Candace" on March 15 in Nashville. Jason Davis/Getty Photos

On Tuesday, Owens argued that Putin just isn't attempting to commit genocide by means of his lethal assaults on the Ukrainian folks and that the general public is "ignorant" to the Russian president's targets.

"He has targets. The aim is not only to do away with Ukrainians. That makes fully no sense. It could not be useful for him," she stated.

A day earlier, the conservative commentator doubled down on her remarks that Russians are being handled unfairly amid the warfare in Ukraine, going as far as to check the therapy of Russians overseas to Japanese-People throughout WWII.

"I stand by each phrase of my tweet pertaining to the therapy of Russian residents overseas," Owens tweeted on Monday. "These calling for [R]ussian college students, opera singers, and many others to be banned are the sort of scum who would have demanded the Japanese internment."

Whereas Owens' "Russian lives matter" tweet from final week was retweeted by the Russian Embassy, her remarks drew backlash from different social media customers who had been fast to level to the climbing variety of civilian deaths in Ukraine.

"Let's hope you're joking after what the Russians did on the maternity and childrens hospital right this moment. Would you want clarify this," one consumer wrote.

"Russia lives matter a lot to Putin's warfare crime regime that they despatched moveable crematories to cover the deaths," Olga Lautman, a senior fellow at The Heart for European Coverage Evaluation, tweeted. "Candace is clearly on payroll pushing Kremlin rubbish whereas supporting genocide."