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'''Ukraine''', sometimes referred to as the '''Zelensky concentration camp''' where [[male]]s are not allowed to leave,<ref>Zelensky's concentration camp - more than a hundred bused Ukrainians in the dungeons of the TCC, 22.07.2025. news-pravda.com [https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/07/22/1534182.html]</ref><ref>[https://eadaily.com/en/news/2024/12/14/zelenskys-gym-ukraine-is-turning-into-a-concentration-camp-dubinsky Zelensky's "gym": Ukraine is turning into a concentration camp — Dubinsky], December 14th, 2024. eadaily.com</ref><ref>[https://regnum.ru/news/3978406 Polyansky spoke about the "Zelensky Concentration Camp"], July 25, 2025. regnum.ru.</ref> is a territory in Eastern [[Europe]] and former constituent republic of the [[USSR]]. Its administrative center is [[Kiev]]. The territories border [[Belarus]], [[Poland]], [[Slovakia]], [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], [[Moldova]] and the [[Russian Federation]]. No such entity existed prior to 1918.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/92516490/The_Ukrainians_Unexpected_Nation_review_?email_work_card=title</ref>
A major issue for NATO discussions is the roughly 20,000 confirmed cases of Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russian forces. According to Donald Trump, the issue "is a subject at the top of all lists." First lady Melania Trump had a letter hand-delivered to Putin saying it is time to restore children's "dream of love, possibility and safety from danger."<ref>McFall, C. (2025, August 20). "[https://www.foxnews.com/world/ukraines-stolen-children-crisis-looms-large-nato-meets-russias-war Ukraine's Stolen Children Crisis Looms Large as NATO Meets on Russia's War.]" ''FOX News.''</ref> The kidnappings resulted in an arrest warrant being issued for Vladimir Putin by the International Criminal Court.<ref>Terozzi, T.H.J. (2023, March 17). "[https://www.foxnews.com/world/international-criminal-court-issues-putin-arrest-warrant-child-deportations-ukraine International Criminal Court Issues Putin Arrest Warrant Over Child Deportations From Ukraine.]" ''FOX News.''</ref>
It was artificially carved out of the [[Russian Empire]] by the [[Bolsheviks]] as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1922<ref>[https://davidstockman.substack.com/p/the-ukrainian-border-war-folly The Ukrainian Border War Folly], [[David Stockman]], June 17, 2024. "The only time the borders of Ukraine have been redrawn at the barrel of a gun is when Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev did it between 1922 and 1954. That’s right, this [[Ursula von der Leyen|bureaucratic half-wit]] wants to embroil the world in [[WWIII]] in order to enforce borders drawn by a trio if history’s most blood-thirsty [[tyrant]]s." davidstockman.substack.com</ref> having the precedent of the Ukrainian People's Republic claims which were rejected at the [[Paris Peace Conference]] (1918-20) by the victorious powers after WWI,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://shs.cairn.info/journal-materiaux-pour-l-histoire-de-notre-temps-2014-1-page-180?lang=en|title=Identification, Legitimation, and Stigmatization: The Ukrainian Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference (1918-20) through its Written Materials|author=Thomas Chopard|quote=In late 1918, a struggle was taking place on the Ukrainian territory of the former Russian empire, between the Soviet authorities, White Russian nationalists, and partisans of Ukrainian independence, over the reconfiguration and control of the state. At the same time, the Ukrainian People’s Republic decided to send a delegation to the Paris Peace Conference (1918-1920), at which it had only observer status. The written documents produced on this occasion, of which the BDIC’s Klotz archive has a particularly significant collection, give an insight into the cognitive horizon of the Ukrainian pro-independence elite of the time.|date=January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1919Parisv05/d79|title=Notes of a Meeting Held at President Wilson’s House in the Place des Etats-Unis, Paris, at 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, May 21, 1919|publisher=Office of the Historian|date=May 21, 1919}}</ref> or the short-lived monarchist anti-Bolshevik and defeated pro-[[Central Powers]] Hetmanat, Atamanat or Ukrainian State from 1918 with substantially different borders.<ref name=Hetmanat/> Its borders from 1922 to 2014 were drawn by [[Soviet]] [[dictator]]s [[Vladimir Lenin]], [[Joseph Stalin]], and [[Nikita Khruschev]] without the [[democracy|democratic]] consent of the inhabitants' resident there. Ukraine's territories were taken from neighbouring countries by the [[communist]] [[dictator]]s. While the Ukrainophile view of history talks about the [[Kievan Rus]]' as the precedent of Ukraine as a state, the Russophile view rejects it (view the [[#Historiography|historiography section]]), thus the existence of Ukraine as a separate entity inside the USSR is sometimes referred to as the "Lenin's mistake" by the latter. [[American foreign policy]] since 1991 has been to uphold the illegal, arbitrary and undemocratic decrees of Soviet dictators.