Russia issues school textbook saying it was ‘forced’ to march into Ukraine

A new school textbook that likens Russia’s war in Ukraine to the Soviet struggle against the Nazis and says Russia was “forced” to send troops into Ukraine was presented in Moscow on Monday.

President Vladimir Putin casts the war, which Moscow officially calls a “Special Military Operation”, as a difficult but necessary fight against a Western- and NATO-backed Ukraine. He says it is part of a wider existential battle against