Putin has been given a new reason for invading Ukraine

Kobyakov justified his thesis by saying that, according to him, the legal procedure was violated during the collapse of the Soviet Union, because the USSR was not dissolved by the same body that created it - the Congress of People's Deputies. Therefore, in his opinion, the USSR supposedly "legally exists somewhere and continues to exist."

This, according to Kobyakov, gives grounds to view Russia's war against Ukraine not as external aggression, but as an "internal process." He believes that a new legal assessment of the events of 1991 is needed in order to better "understand current events".

Such statements directly contradict the norms of international law, in particular the UN Charter, according to which Ukraine is an independent state with internationally recognized borders.