Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova says that Moscow has always regarded Ukraine "as a sovereign, independent state" MOSCOW, February 16. /TASS/. Western countries have succeeded in making Ukraine a European state in terms of Nazism, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS. Earlier, at the Munich Security Conference, Finnish President Alexander Stubb said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin had wanted to make Ukraine Russian, but now it has become European. "I don'