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Crediting Russia as the sole successor of the medieval Kyivan Rus and laying claims to all of the lands it controlled, erasing histories of Ukrainian cities such as Kharkiv and Odesa and justifying attacks on them while also labeling Ukrainian artists and scientists as being actually Russian, is part of Moscow’s ongoing quest to erase Ukraine, its history and culture.

The fifth episode of “Ukraine’s True History” explains how Russia stole Ukrainian history and uses it to justify its all-out war.

Read the story here: https://kyivindependent.com/how-russia-steals-and-rewrites-ukrainian-history-to-justify-its-claims-in-ukraine/

This material is funded by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting within the program “Ukraine Forward: Amplifying Analysis.”
The program is financed by the MATRA Programme of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ukraine.

Producer: Natalia Chekotun
Scriptwriters: Oleg Sukhov, Natalia Chekotun
Story editors: Oleksiy Sorokin, Toma Istomina
Illustration: Alina Radomska
Animation, sound: Anastasia Nevmerzhytska
Narrator: Anthony Bartaway
Project coordinator: Anna Yakutenko

00:00 – Intro
00:42 – Where was Kyivan Rus located?
00:56 – Russia and Kyivan Rus
01:17 – The word “Rus”
01:25 – The word “Rus” and Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia
01:44 – The word “Rus” and Moscow Tsardom
02:17 – Is Ukraine or Russia the main successor of Kyivan Rus?
02:37 – Little Russia, Great Russia and White Russia
02:57 – The term “Little Rus”
03:06 – Why does Moscow call Ukraine “Little Russia”?
03:17 – The name “Ukraine”
03:33 – What is “New Russia”?
04:27 – Is Odesa “historically Russian”?
04:37 – Monument to Russian Empress Catherine II in Odesa
04:57 – Greek settlements in Odesa
05:10 – The town of Hadhibey
05:39 – Is Kharkiv “historically Russian”?
05:55 – Kharkiv and Sloboda Cossacks
06:08 – Is “Crimea” historically Russian?
06:20 – Greeks and Crimean Tatars
06:52 – Russia appropriates Ukrainian scientists and artists
07:02 – Writer Mykola Gogol
07:45 – Scientist Serhiy Korolov
08:34 – Aviation engineer Ihor Sikorsky
09:16 – Russia appropriating Ukrainian history
09:26 – Ukraine reclaims its history
09:42 – Kuindzhi, Repin and Malevych recognized as Ukrainian artists

Photos and videos used in the story:
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Ivan Honchar Museum
YouTube/Odesa City Council
facebook/Kharkiv City Council
facebook/Serhiy Hutsaliuk
Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS
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telegram/Margarita Simonyan
YouTube/Vladimir Rodin
YouTube/Anatoliy Myrhorod
YouTube/Andrey Kochurov
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Kyiv International Airport
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facebook/Sergíy Kyslytsya
facebook/Oksana Semenik
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Russia has been leading a centuries-long quest to distort Ukrainian history in an attempt to deny Ukrainians the right to choose their own fate.
In the first episode of the Kyiv Independent’s new series – “Ukraine’s True History” – we explain and debunk the 10 most common misconceptions about Ukrainian history that Russian propaganda has been spreading for years.

This material is funded by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting within the program “Ukraine Forward: Amplifying Analysis.”
The program is financed by the MATRA Programme of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ukraine.

Producer and scriptwriter: Iryna Matviyishyn
Illustration, animation, sound: Hanna Naronina
Narrator: Anthony Bartaway
Story editors: Oleksiy Sorokin, Olga Rudenko, Toma Istomina
Opener: Illustration by Alina Radomska. Motion design by Anastasia Nevmerzhytska.
Project coordinator: Anna Yakutenko

00:00 – Intro
00:35 – Myth 1: Moscow is the legitimate successor of Kyivan Rus
01:35 – Myth 2: Ukrainians and Russians are one people
02:50 – Myth 3: Crimea is Russian
04:10 – Myth 4: The Holodomor famine was result of bad harvest
05:37 – Myth 5: Communism was a good idea with bad implementation
06:40 – Myth 6: Ukrainians are ‘Nazis’
07:51 – Myth 7: Russia liberated Europe from the Nazis
08:38 – Myth 8: Ukraine is divided: east vs. west
09:27 – Myth 9: Ukraine is a project of the West
10:21 – Myth 10: Ukraine is culturally poor
Read the story here: https://kyivindependent.com/10-popular-misconceptions-about-ukrainian-history-debunked/

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History of Ukraine
This video presents the brief history of Ukraine, the second-largest European country after Russia.

Chapter
00:00 Introduction
00:32 The Kievan Rus’
02:07 The Cossacks
03:23 Ukraine under the Soviet Union
05:18 Modern-day Ukraine

With a unique geography, Ukraine is a crucial pawn in the strategic and economic games of the European larger powers, namely Russia and the West.

The dawn of Ukraine’s history dates back to more than a thousand years ago when Ukraine did not even exist, at least not as an independent sovereign state.

The Rus’ are claimed to be the cultural ancestors of Ukraine and also Belarus and Russia. From the 10th to 11th centuries, Kievan Rus’ became the largest and most powerful state in Europe.

During the 14th and 15th centuries, the Kievan Rus’ state was divided and ruled by the Golden Horde, the Crimean Khanate, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

The Cossacks, the most important piece of Ukraine’s identity, became particularly strong in the 17th century.

Following the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795, most of modern-day Central Ukraine was incorporated into the Russian Empire while the western part was split between Russia and Habsburg-ruled Austria.

In the wake of the Russian Revolution in 1917, the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UPR) was proclaimed but only existed til 1920.
In late 1922, following the Russian Civil War, four Soviet republics: Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and Transcaucasia formed the Soviet Union (or USSR) via a treaty.

In 1939, as part of a Non-Aggression Pact with Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union invaded and annexed the eastern regions of Poland, expanding the Ukrainian SSR’s territory to the west.

In 1954, the Crimea Peninsula’s government was transferred from the Soviet Union to the Ukraine SSR, expanding the territory to the south.

In 1991, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine regained independence.

In 2014, following the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity, war broke out between Russia and Ukraine.

On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, escalating the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War.

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A Brief History Of Ukraine (And Why Russia Wants To Control It)

In this animated video, historian Matt Lewis tells the story of Ukraine’s turbulent and often surprising history. Beginning over a thousand years ago with the formation of the Kyivan Rus state, Matt tracks the development of Ukraine during the Mongol invasions, its incorporation into the Polish and Lithuanian Commonwealth, and eventually it’s allegiance with the tsars of a newly formed Russia.

The ongoing crisis in relations between Russia and Ukraine is threatening to engulf eastern Europe in a war on a scale not seen since 1945. The eyes of the world are focussed on the military activity as politicians scramble to encourage a diplomatic solution that will deescalate the conflict.

Ukraine was known as the breadbasket of Soviet Russia. It remains politically, militarily, and economically important to Russia today. Precisely why there is a dispute over the sovereignty or otherwise of Ukraine is a complex question rooted in the region’s history. It is a story more than a thousand years in the making. For much of this story, Ukraine did not
exist, at least not as an independent, sovereign state, so the name Ukraine will be used to help identify the region around Kyiv that was so central to the story. The Crimea is an important part of the story too and its history forms a part of the history of the relationship between Russia and Ukraine.

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