KYIV (NYTIMES) - On the eve of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin of Russia argued that the very idea of Ukrainian statehood was a fiction. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KYIV - On the eve of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin of Russia argued that the very idea of Ukrainian statehood was a fiction.
As Ukraine celebrated its independence on Wednesday , rebutting Putin's revisionist narrative of history was even more imperative for many Ukrainians, a defence against what many historians see as Putin's distortions of history. But the historical reality of Ukraine is complicated, a thousand-year history of changing religions, borders and peoples. The capital, Kyiv, was established hundreds of years before Moscow, and both Russians and Ukrainians claim it as a birthplace of their modern cultures, religion and language.
But other parts in the west fell under the jurisdiction of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Poland or Lithuania.
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