McGlynn, Jade. Russia’s War. – Croydon: Polity, 2023. – 256 p.

 In quotations a change of the narrative occurs in conformity with the change of the "point of view". Below one may find a clash of the Russian and Western narratives:

“With expansion,, NATO went from a defensive to aggressive alliance. NATO began to expand and then it began to go to war. It had never been to war before. So this claim we hear that NATO is a defensive alliance – that was true only during the cold war. Since the Cold War there’s been Yugoslavia, Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq.” [McGlynn, 2023: 119]

Fedor Lukyanov:

“It is strange we didn’t expect it because if we go to Putin’s essay because … it delivers a strong historical foundation as to why Russia and Ukraine are one people. He says very clearly we consider it is one nation, any divisions are artificial, we can recognize the presence of two states but there are conditions: these two states can co-exist  if one remains friendly but if one becomes hostile, like the anti-Russia stated there, then that state won’t exist. As simple as that.” [McGlynn, 2023: 143]

Sergei Lavrov:

“Ukraine tried to build up its sovereignty through the rejection of its history. Ukraine has no history of her own without the Russian nation” [McGlynn, 2023: 143]