What I am aware of is that Ukraine has been part of Russia for more than 1,000 years. Kiev has been the capital of all of Russia several times throughout history going back more than a thousand years. Ukraine has only been a seperate independent state for around 25 years.
I would like you to tell me where you got this information from exactly. I mean, what you are describing is the exact USSR propaganda that the whole world was told while the Ukrainian people starved and dyed under the communist rule. Kiev has never been a part of Russia, Moscow is the capital of Russia. Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus', was the first East Slavic state, a medieval state encompassing various polities and peoples, centered in Kyiv (modern-day Ukraine), that existed from the late 9th to the mid-13th century.
We learn from Herodotus that the Scythians, the ancient nomadic people, lived here a few centuries before Christ. They traded with Greeks and fought with Persians. Compatriots of the Greek father of history loved Ukraine’s Black Sea coast as well. When the brilliance of the ancient civilization dimmed, the Slavs entered the historic arena. Archaeological research shows that their ancestral homeland was the Ukrainian land.
The history of Ukraine spans thousands of years, tracing its roots to the Pontic steppe—one of the key centers of the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages, Indo-European migrations, and early horse domestication. In antiquity, the region was home to the Scythians, followed by the gradual expansion of Slavic tribes. The northern Black Sea coast saw the influence of Greek and Roman colonies, leaving a lasting cultural legacy. Over time, these diverse influences contributed to the development of early political and cultural structures. (Russia has yet to exists)
extra info about the old tribes that Ukraine was part of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucuteni–Trypillia_culture
In ancient times, Ukraine was part of the state of Kievan Rus', which was also known as Kyivan Rus'. The name Kievan Rus' was coined by Russian historians in the 19th century and used it to make their own history as they did not have their own.
Under the influence of Christianity, the Slavic ancestors of the Ukrainians began to search for their place in Medieval Europe. A powerful medieval state called Rus’ land or just Rus’ was born and it developed into Ukrainian lands, meeting its golden age at the turn of the 11th century. According to scientists, about 100,000 people lived in its main city called Kyiv (the modern capital of Ukraine), which exceeded the total then population of London and Paris. Later, in the 13th century, the princes of Rus’ were the first in Europe to meet the Mongol invasion, which undermined the state-building potential of the local nobility. Ukrainian lands fell under the rule of neighbouring states – Lithuania and Poland. It merged into one of the largest and most powerful monarchies in Europe, the Commonwealth. This state existed from the 16th to the end of the 18th century, gathering the territories of modern Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia and western Russia.
At the same time, the Ukrainian phenomenon of free chivalry reached its apogee, and Cossacks (‘free men’, from Turkic languages) appeared in the European arena. For a while, they even managed to create their own state called Hetmanate (Zaporizhzhia Host). Cossack detachments took part in almost all the great wars in the region, either as an independent military force or as mercenaries. They had their own unique customs, self-government and an original military tradition.
Meanwhile, Crimean Tatars developed on their native soil in their own state — the Crimean Khanate. History both united Crimean Tatars with Cossacks in one coalition and brought them into collision in bloody fights. The Crimean state ceased to exist at about the same time as the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was divided, and the Hetmanate finally lost its autonomy. Imperial Russia contributed to all of these tragic events.
From the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century, Ukrainian lands were part of two empires — Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) and Russian. At that time, Ukrainians took part in the Napoleonic Wars, fought for political and civil rights, built powerful corporations and railways, opened gymnasiums and hospitals, contributed to science and technology as well as developed language and culture along the same lines as other European nations that did not have their own states and were parts of empires.
The 20th century began in a stormy way for Ukraine — millions of people were thrown into the chaos of World War I.
Witnessing the downfall of the age-old empires, Ukraine made an attempt to build its own nation-state in 1917-1921. Together with the Poles, Ukrainians managed to protect Europe from communism and defeat the Russian Bolshevik troops near Warsaw. Poland resisted, while Ukraine was reconquered by its neighbours. Until 1991, Ukrainians lived under the power of the totalitarian regime as a constituent part of the communist USSR. It was a difficult time with terrible tragedies and challenges — forced collectivization, genocide-Holodomor, The Great Terror, deportations, GULAG, punitive psychiatry, Soviet military interventions, the Chornobyl disaster, among other events, that took the lives of millions of Ukrainians who represented many different nationalities.
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As you can tell, Ukraine had been a free state fighting from invasion due to its rich land and resources. Only after WWI did the Ukranians ever become a connected state with the Russians. If you want to learn more about the TRUTH, please do so.
The reality that you are ignoring is the Millions of Ukranians who have been killed in this war, and who are continuing to be killed. An enormous portion of the populations of both of these countries are being killed by genocidal criminal jew leaders. And if this war does not come to an end soon, there will not be barely any more Ukranian people left still surviving. You are not doing as well as your propaganda says. This is an attrition war and enormous percentages of population are dying on both sides.
Woudln't you like to know, yeah, that's what war and fighting for your nation means.
Do you know how Russians invaded Crimea so easily? Because there already is a Russian naval base in Crimea that has been controlled by Russia for all these years, and they simply walked outside.
Yes, but that was not because Russia OWNED that land for thousands of years, but because of the events of 2014.
The death has to stop before there is nobody left. If you cared about your people, you would want them to survive.
Yeah I do want my people to survive, but if we just stop fighting, there won't be Ukraine as a nation, there will be USSR, and eventually my culture, practices and so much more will be wiped off books.
