REFERENCE: The Ukraine Gambit (Part II)

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/world/europe/putin-ukraine.html

In his speech to the Russian nation on Monday, President Vladimir V. Putin buoyed his case for codifying the cleavage of two rebel territories from Ukraine by arguing that the very idea of Ukrainian statehood was a fiction ... Ukraine and Russia share roots stretching back to the first Slavic state, Kievan Rus, a medieval empire founded by Vikings in the 9th century.

 

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1571345/Russia-history-Ukraine-part-of-Russia-evg

Ukraine and Russia, as neighbouring nations, have a long and varied shared history.

 

https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/ukraine-history-fact-checking-putin-513812/

While the history of the Ukrainian state probably cannot be traced back any earlier than 1918, Lenoe says “to be clear—today Ukraine is a nation state” where polling in elections indicates that the “vast majority of Ukrainians” want to preserve their independence.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_War_of_Independence

Modern Ukrainian historians consider it a failed war of independence by the Ukrainian People's Republic against the Bolsheviks.

 

https://www.britannica.com/question/What-is-the-difference-between-a-nation-and-a-state

A nation is a group of people with a common language, history, culture, and (usually) geographic territory. A state is an association of people characterized by formal institutions of government, including laws; permanent territorial boundaries; and sovereignty (political independence).

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France

Vichy France (French: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State (État français), was the French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. Officially independent, but with half of its territory occupied under the harsh terms of the armistice with Nazi Germany, it adopted a policy of collaboration. The Occupation of France by Nazi Germany at first affected only the northern and western portions of the country, before the Germans occupied the remainder of Metropolitan France in November 1942. Though Paris was ostensibly its capital, the Vichy government established itself in the resort town of Vichy in the unoccupied "Free Zone" (zone libre), where it remained responsible for the civil administration of France as well as its colonies.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_of_Ukraine

The Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine was adopted by the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR on 24 August 1991. The Act reestablished Ukraine's state independence.

 

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