Issued on: 03/10/2026 – 20:08
23:49 min
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The Bronze Horseman, the iconic equestrian statue in St Petersburg’s Senate Square, was commissioned by Catherine the Great to honor Peter the Great, the city’s founder. Its pedestal bears the dedication: “To Peter the First, Catherine the Second, 1782.” Is Putin seeking to become the third — Vladimir the Great? And is that ambition for expansion at any cost the true driver of the war in Ukraine? According to former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, “Putin only cares about what will be written about him in history books.”
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