Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "Wagner Swipes Through West BAKHMUT with FAB-500s" video.

  1. ​ @melkor3496  Russia was not an aggressor - Russia liberated its territories that were previously captured by Sweden - the coast of the Baltic Sea, where Petersburg is now located. This territory never was Swedish.
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  2.  @scruffy7760  Russia was not an aggressor - Russia liberated its territories that were previously captured by Sweden - the coast of the Baltic Sea, where Petersburg is now located. This territory never was Swedish.
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  3. The coast of the Baltic Sea, where St. Petersburg is now, has never been a Swedish territory. It has always been Russian land. In 1612, Sweden captured Russian territory, but as part of the Northern War in the early 18th century, Russia liberated its territories, on which St. Petersburg was later founded.
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  4.  @melkor3496  There was a rather complicated war between Russia, Livonia, Poland and Sweden, the war lasted a long time and the countries changed sides. The coast of the Baltic Sea and St. Petersburg is the original Russian land, which was originally Russian - just look at the map of the Novgorod principality back in the 9th century, or the map of Ancient Russia, which you call Kievan Rus in the West - after the Novgorod prince captured Kiev, he betrayed his nobles, who deprived him of power, and began to rule in Kiev, later annexing his native Novgorod, and thus united all the tribes and principalities into a single state, which was called Kievan Rus. And then Rus' again broke up into many principalities. Russia came from the Vladimir-Suzdal and Novgorod principalities, Ukraine originated from the Kyiv principality of Rus'. In the 13th century, Moscow was founded on the territories of the Vladimir-Suzdal principality, which then united all the other principalities into a single state - Russia. Moscow's rival was Novgorod, which also claimed to be the center of the new state. The territory on which St. Petersburg is now located belonged to the Novgorod Principality of Russia for centuries. Russia at the beginning of the 18th century liberated its lands from Swedish occupation
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