[imagesource: The Daily Mail / Tsargrad TV]

This pro-Kremlin cartoon video likened the history that led Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine to a schoolyard bullying situation.

If it wasn’t Russian propaganda made to convince Russian children that their president is the good guy, then Putin might have been on to something, comparing himself to a sullen child.

The three-minute video created by Russian state media starts off with two kids representing Ukraine and Russia playing together in a sandbox and sitting next to each other at school.

Then Ukraine leaves to ‘hang out by himself’, which is supposed to represent their independence from the control of the Soviet Union.

Ukraine then makes friends with the other kids on the playground (representing them establishing diplomatic relations with the US in 1991), thus breaking its ‘friendship’ with Russia for good, explained The Daily Mail:

It goes on to show the Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic who became self-proclaimed breakaway states located in Ukraine, formed on 7 April 2014.

The pro-Kremlin propaganda says: ‘Ukraine began to oppress the Russian population so these two oblasts wanted to separate and become a part of Russia – but Ukraine disagreed and began to go to war with those territories’.

It says the reason Putin went to war was because ‘Russia tried to stop the killing of people and resolve the issue peacefully’.

Give the clip a watch:

Since doing the rounds on social media, people have been slamming the “absolutely ridiculous” and “historically inaccurate” Russian narrative, while Putin goes on to accuse the Ukraine government of being a “neo-Nazi” regime supported by the West:

He said the West was “closing its eyes… to the genocide that four million people are suffering” – a reference to the mostly Russian-speaking population of eastern Ukraine.

To set things straight, Vox released a more accurate portrayal of what has led us to this point:

[source:dailymail]