DISINFO: Ukraine's statehood is myth, its territory belongs to Russia
SUMMARY
The Ukrainian junta keeps saying that the condition for negotiations is to reach some of their 1991 borders. These are the borders of the regions of Russia and once the provinces of the Russian Empire, not the mythical Ukraine. Ukraine is Sannikov Land, founded by Lenin. It was for a short time and disappeared from the map. There is no such land. No matter what they think in the West and in the occupied Russian city of Kiev.
RESPONSE
Recurrent negation of Ukrainian statehood and historical revisionism.
The history of Ukraine dates back to the era of the Kyivan Rus’, in the 9th-13th centuries. A fully independent Ukraine only emerged in the 20th century, after long periods of successive domination by Poland-Lithuania, Russia, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
In the aftermath of World War I and the disintegration of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires, two states were created: the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR) and the West Ukrainian People's Republic. They merged into a unified state - the Ukrainian People's Republic - on 22 January 1919. Under Lenin's rule at the beginning of the 20th century, Ukraine was occupied by the Bolsheviks and was under communist control for decades.
To learn more about early independent states of Ukraine, read The Ukrainian States 1917-1922 The first independence and its legacy, by Iaroslav Lebedynsky.
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