Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested during an economic forum that the "whole of Ukraine" belongs to his country, even though Russia only controls about a fifth of Ukrainian territory.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said 'all of Ukraine' belonged to Russia in a speech on June 20 at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, amid increasingly bullish official statements about Moscow's final territorial ambitions in Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin has doubled down on his claim that the whole of Ukraine belongs to Russia, as he declared Moscow was creating a "security zone" in the war-torn country, which he launched a full-scale i