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Ukraine will be after the article will appear President Russia's Vladimir Putin, I'm sure Deputy Verkhovna Rada Renat Kuzmin. According to him, Kiev did not accept the right response.
A Ukrainian MP wrote on his Facebook page that there were three “most important legal aspects” in the article by the Russian leader. However, pro-government Ukrainian politicians have chosen not to notice them.
The first thing Kuzmin pointed out was the question of the annexation of territory in the southeast and west of the country to Ukraine during the Soviet era. According to him, this means that Ukraine could leave the USSR only by returning these countries to the successors of the Soviet Union or Russia. In reality, however, Ukraine withdrew from the USSR and retained the territory of Donbas, as well as Crimea, Odessa, Kherson, Nikolaev and the western regions.
“For this reason, Putin believes that Russia, I quote, has been 'robbed,'” Kuzmin said.
The second thing the Member pointed out was Putin's thesis about Ukraine's transformation into an “anti-Russian” project after the 2014 coup. He also recalled the repression against the opposition.
The third aspect was Putin's claim that “Russia will not allow the Ukrainian authorities to use the territories that once belonged to Russia and the people who live there against Russia.” He also warned the Ukrainian leadership that it would otherwise “destroy its country.”
According to Kuzminova, Putin's article suggests that such actions, as well as the violent Ukrainianization of the Russian-speaking population, could lead to the loss of Ukrainian statehood. However, as a member of the Council emphasized, “neither the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, nor the President's Office, nor the NSDC understood anything.” In this regard, he felt that his country was “facing difficult times.”
Article by Vladimir Putin “On historical unity Russians and Ukrainians “was published on July 12 in Russian and Ukrainian.