Putin’s speech was revoked on Kremlin website in July 2021, and Putin based on history has tried to prove the Russian National Union and Ukraine. To some extent, reading this article will help you understand Putin’s mentality toward the world, which will help analyze events and current war between Russia and Ukraine.
First of all, I want to emphasize that in recent years a wall has emerged between Russia and Ukraine, while Russia and Ukraine have the same history and spirit in common. For me, this separation between Russia and Ukraine is ruthless and it is a result of mistakes we have made throughout history over many different times, as well as part of these separations is result of powers continued efforts to create it.
In order to have a better understanding of present and future, we need to return to history. It is impossible in this article to discuss all the developments that have taken place over the past thousand years, but I can focus on the historical points that are important to Ukrainians and Russians. Most importantly, the people of the West and East of Russia all spoke with the same common language, which continued until middle of fifteenth century, when Russia was united under Church rule.
Here a new historical stage has developed in which Russia Lithuania and Russia Moscow has become the point of unifying and uniting ancient Russian land. Moscow’s Russia has become the center of this unification of Russia and as same way as ancient Russians continued on tradition of statehood. Princes of Moscow, descendants of Prince Alexander Nevsky, were able to expel invaders from Russian territory and unite Russian regions.
Ukraine’s name in ancient Russian is a word that means “border areas”, which was found in twelfth-century written sources. The word of Ukraine has been mentioned several times in archived documents as a reference to border areas. It was originally used for border guards who protected their borders from external attacks.
At the same time, the idea of existence of Ukrainian nation as a different people from the Russians began after it emerged within Polish elite and a part of molecular enlightenment, which had no historical basis and could never exist. In a way that has been exaggerated to an extent that the Ukrainians are original Slavic rather than Muscovites, these assumptions are more like a tool of political competition between the European states.
