Medvedev compared Ukraine with the non-existent “Sannikov Land”

Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev compared Ukraine to Sannikov Land, a territory in the Arctic Ocean that is considered non-existent.

Medvedev in his Telegram channel reminded about Ukraine’s demand to return to the borders of 1991 and stated that these are “the borders of the regions of Russia and once the provinces of the Russian Empire, and not the mythical Ukraine.”

“Ukraine is the Sannikov Land founded by Lenin. Was not for long and disappeared from the map. There is no such land. Whatever they think in the West and in the occupied Russian city of Kyiv,” he wrote.

The fact that Ukraine will be ready for negotiations after entering the borders of the country in 1991, including the territories of the south-east of the country before their inclusion in Russia and Crimea, declared July 1, President Vladimir Zelensky.

Sannikov Land is called a “ghost island” in the Arctic Ocean, which could be seen by some researchers in the 19th century, including Yakov Sannikov. The Arctic expeditions of Baron Eduard Toll were aimed at searching for Sannikov Land. In September 1902, during the Russian polar expedition on the schooner Zarya, one of the goals of which was to search for Sannikov Land, Toll’s group went missing. In 1937, the Soviet icebreaker Sadko passed near the supposed island, but found nothing but ocean ice.