"Leave with what you came with." What Putin wrote in an article about Ukraine
Monday's main topics were two articles about Ukraine by Vladimir Putin and Viktor Medvedchuk. They were published on a very important day for Ukrainians: on July 12, the president of Ukraine arrived in Germany on a two-day visit. This moment seemed convenient to tell Ukrainians how Russia sees their past and future, to voice territorial claims and threats once again: not only to Ukraine but also to Europe. Evil tongues say that the main addressee of Putin's article is in Berlin, while Medvedchuk's is in Paris.
Liliya Kornilova writes about it on the pages of the information resource OBOZREVATEL.
Vladimir Vladimirovich's article was published on the website of the Russian president - in Russian and (for the first time) in Ukrainian. After reading the two versions, there is a feeling that nobody in the administration of the Russian President wanted to read 40 thousand characters, and the text was translated using an automatic translation service. It is full of bloopers, some of them are Freudian. Say, on Russian it is written, that "according to the Riga treaty of 1921 between RSFSR, USSR and Poland the western lands of the former Russian empire have passed to Poland", on Ukrainian - "Kolishnoy Radianskoy Incorporatsii". I was reminded of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, speaking to the National Association of Evangelicals in Florida in March 1983, calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire.
And why, in fact, would you waste your time translating an article that is unlikely to be read by any Ukrainians? Why read an essay on the "historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians" when you can go to, for example, the section "10 Facts about Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine" on the website of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and refresh your memory.
"As a result of Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine, some 9,940 people were killed and some 2,355 were wounded (according to the UN). These figures include, among others, 298 passengers of flight MH17, including 80 children, who were victims of the terrorist attack on July 17, 2014, when the Malaysian Airlines plane was shot down by the Russian military from the Buk SAM, which was delivered to the occupied territory of Donbass from Russian territory. About 1 million 584,000 residents of Crimea and Donbass were forced to leave their homes as internally displaced persons. As of today, occupied remain: The Autonomous Republic of Crimea (26081 km²), Sevastopol (864 km²), parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions (16799 km²) - a total of 43744 km², or 7.2% of Ukraine's territory. In the east, the section of the Russian-Ukrainian state border, 409.7 km long, remains uncontrolled by the Ukrainian government," the Foreign Ministry said on its website.
Vladimir Putin writes in his article that "Russians and Ukrainians are one people, one whole", "the wall that has emerged in recent years between Russia and Ukraine, between the parts, in fact, of one historical and spiritual space" he perceives "as a great common misfortune, as a tragedy". In his opinion, "this is first of all consequences of our own mistakes made in different periods," "but also the result of purposeful work of those forces that have always sought to undermine our unity." According to him, the formula "divide and rule" applies.
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