So Sweden could technically do what Russia did to Ukraine & claim Russia was a historical territory of Sweden and that it actually belongs to us.🤠 Noice 👌
@@loveitftw without justifying the invasion - it is not the same. Eastern Ukraine, Crimea and Odessa have nothing to do with Ukraine. Hetmanate was a landlocked 'state' between Turks, Tatars, Russians and Poles.
@@mktdul2095 well, the rus was some Swede Vikings and so technically we could win the Olympics in long jumping by saying that we did move there. If not, then "st Petersburg" will suffice I guess
Maybe because this is the history of the formation of modern Ukraine? The name "Ukraine" was first used in 1187, and it is also found on maps of the 17th and 18th centuries
@@Fm-io6kz doesn't change the fact that there was no country Ukraine prior to 1920. The word ukraina is used in some maps but it has nothing to do with the country Ukraine.
@@funitoo and? Until those times, there were no "countries" in the modern sense of the word. What you said is wrong. Not 1920, but 1917. Then the Ukrainian People's Republic appeared and on January 9 (22), 1918, proclaimed independence.
_Something important to know, for all who are interested in history and/or support Ukraine:_ _Rus' ought not to be confused with modern “Russia”, which derives its name from the Rus' but historically is a completely different state, which almost all its existence was at war with the Rus'._ _Just like the Holy Roman Empire was actually Germany, “Russia” is actually Muscovy, despite their best attempts to convince everybody otherwise._ _Its name “Russia" received only in the 18th century, when Peter I simply changed Muscovy’s name into the “All Russian Empire” (Russia originates from Rosia, name used by the Greek Orthodox Clergy in regards to Rus')_ _Under the reign of Cathrine II Muscovites where even punished for continuing to identify as Muscovites, and were forced to call themselves Russian._ _Lands that Russia (Muscovy) claims were part of the original Rus', but actually weren't, are Novgorod, Suzdal, and Ryazan, since in historical texts of XI-XII centuries they are mentioned as separate entities from Rus'. They can be considered parts of extended Rus', although their culture was distinct from main Rus'._ _In 1493, Muscovite duke Ivan III appointed himself to be the Great Ruler of All Rus'. No other kings acknowledged that. From that point on Muscovy started to make false claims on Rus' ownership._ _“Russia” is an offshoot of Ukraine and not the other way round, despite what Soviet and Russian (Muscovite) historians have been trying to say for years. A Slavicised Finnic, then later, Mongolized offshoot. Kyiv was a developed cultured capital when Moscow was just another swamp village._ _Germany used to call itself the Holy Roman Empire, that didn’t mean they became the Romans, and all of a sudden had a right to claim whole of Italy and its history, but yet, that’s exactly what Russia (Muscovy) did in regards to Rus'-Ukraine, which is a horrible injustice!_
totally! muscovy has a shameful history of paying tribute to the Mongols, the Crimean Tatars till the beginning of the 18th century, and that’s the reason why they try to steal the history of Ukraine so badly
The video provides quite good and interesting information about the beautiful country of Ukraine. Although they are having a hard time right now, I hope the people will enjoy freedom and peace
My moms side of my family is Ukrainian and my grandmother and great grandmother always said that Ukraine is the heart of Kievan Rus. And history shows its true. Us Ukrainians have a very complex history but it the land of the true Motherland. All slavic countries are brothers and sisters but Ukraine is the core.
whos support? if your talking about ukraine supporting germany , then i would argue nazis did less harm to them than communists so some nazi movement is only natural , communisms fucked them in the ass too many times and always oppressed them.
Without Russia The refusal to take into account Russian interests, as well as a sharp course towards the EU and its equally abrupt cancellation, hurt Yanukovych and the whole of Ukraine. But the country's economy was also hurt by the resumption of European integration at the same time as a decisive break with Russia. Despite the fact that recently the Ukrainian establishment has again adopted the rhetoric of the hated USSR, talking about Ukraine as the "breadbasket" of the world and Europe in particular, the agrarians themselves note: the promised access to European markets turned out to be not so open. "It's like you come to visit me at any time convenient for you, and I can only come to you on a certain day, and only for half an hour, and only with prior consent," Yuri Kosyuk, an oligarch, owner of the Mironovsky Bakery agroholding, explained to journalists in January 2016. The oligarch pointed out that catastrophically large restrictions or quotas have been established for the export of food products from Ukraine. "So that you understand: Ukraine produces 1.2 million tons of chicken meat per year. At the same time, Europe gave Ukraine a duty-free quota of 16 thousand tons. Well, plus, you can import 20 thousand tons of whole frozen chicken without duty, which absolutely no one needs. For everything above this quota, there is a duty of more than € 1 thousand per ton," Kosyuk stressed. Thus, Europe, according to him, is busy protecting its market, and is not interested in Ukrainian competitors. At the same time, the share of farmers in the economy of Ukraine itself is growing. There is no paradox here. "The changes that took place in the structure of the Ukrainian economy during 2014, 2015, 2016 and the sharp increase in the agricultural sector to 15% in the overall structure of the Ukrainian economy occurred not because there was an explosive development of agriculture, but because there was an active decrease in the share of the engineering sector. I will say once again that this blow was inflicted because the Russian Federation market disappeared for Ukraine. And if we say that we were talking about about 70-75% of all machine-building exports, and in monetary terms we were talking about amounts of about $ 10 billion, for an economy like Ukraine, in the current measurement, this exceeds 10% of GDP," he said in an interview Ukraina.ru Director of the International Blazer Foundation Oleg Ustenko. According to him, in the years since the Maidan, the Ukrainian economy has shifted to Europe. And if in 2013 European consumers paid about 12 kopecks, and Russians - 17 kopecks in each hryvnia, then according to the result of 2016 the situation was exactly the opposite: consumers from Russia paid 5 kopecks in each hryvnia received in Ukraine, while Europeans - 20 kopecks. However, compensation by the European economy is out of the question for now. "The drop in exports that Ukraine had in the direction of the Russian Federation could not be compensated by an increase in exports to the EU. Moreover, if we look at absolute values in dollar terms, then you and I will see that Ukraine's exports to the EU are lower than they were before 2014, after the FTA agreement with the EU began to work. And that's why there was such a devaluation of the Ukrainian currency - because of the spoiled relations with Russia, that's why there was an active drop in Ukrainian GDP, which cumulatively fell by 15% during 2014-2015," Ustenko explained. But it is impossible to bring back everything as it was. During the years of worsening relations between Russia on the one hand, and Ukraine, the United States and the EU on the other, the Russian economy has been reconfigured. The sanctions that were supposed to weaken it have strengthened the same Russian farmers, who, including thanks to state policy and investments, are ready to export 45 million tons of grain this year. The Russian industry, forced to abandon Ukrainian parts due to the aggravation of relations between the countries, switched to import substitution. As a result, the shipbuilding of the Russian Federation is already doing without Nikolaev turbines, aircraft construction - without joint Ukrainian-Russian projects, and other industries too. For the sake of European markets, where Ukraine is not needed, she abandoned the Russian ones, where they learned to do without her. At the same time, it was possible to try to pursue a multi-vector policy, which was different from the predecessors of Yanukovych and Poroshenko. However, an abrupt, ill-conceived "path to Europe", then an equally abrupt rejection of it in 2013 led the country to disaster.
that was great mate, so much has happened in that area, as an Australian it blows my mind to see the history behind the latest events. well done. Thanks
Some comments. 1. It is interesting how casually author put Russia into Europe frames. But the most territory of Russia is still Asia. 2. The visual series with the crossing out of Ukraine is surprising. As well as the clarification that Ukraine did not exist in the 9th century. The state had a different name. But it existed. It is the same as denying the existence of a state in France during the time of Charlemagne .It is a mistake to believe that the Cossack state became the first independent state of Ukraine, as the video suggests. 3. Could we claim England or Mexico as a cultural ancestors of the USA? This mention of Russia and Belarus in connections with Kyivan Rus looks a little bit strange in Ukrainian context. What worth to be mentioned is that Kyiv has its oun rule dynasty befor Ruryk and Oleh. We know about at least two dukes - Askold and Dyr. 4. The statement regarding the spread of the Holodomor phenomenon to the entire USSR raises questions. While the lion's share of deaths, including the policy of isolation and prohibition on the departure of those who were starving, concerned directly Ukraine. 5. It is a mistake to consider Yanukovych's closer relations with Russia as the cause of the Maidan. At that time, it was about the rejection of European integration and the return of the reconstruction of the USSR. This caused protests, not friendship with Russia. The Ukrainian people chose the path to Europe, European civilization and the rule of law. Yanukovych abandoned this path in favor of preserving the corrupt practices characteristic of the USSR and Russia. 6. Last but not least. Wars do not break out by themselves. It is people who start them. In 2014, the Russian-Ukrainian war did not "explode". Russia started it by annexing Crimea and creating puppet quasi-states in eastern Ukraine.
Nice video, but finland not under the USSR at that time, but was part of Russian empire from 1809 - 1917. (Forgive me for off-topic, but finland was mistaken as part of soviet union as I saw on the map)
Finland like Ukraine was annexed into the Russian Empire. Finland fought for its independence and won. Ukraine on the other hand lost and has been fighting for it ever since. Like Ukraine, Finland has a very long and rich history before it was absorbed into the Russian Empire.
On November 28-29, 2014, during a visit to Vilnius, President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych did not sign the Association Agreement with the EU. According to some publicists, after that his fate was sealed, and Europe actively began to support the unrest in Ukraine During a visit to Lithuania on November 28-29, 2014, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych refused to sign an Association Agreement with the EU. As evidenced by the video from the Vilnius summit, Yanukovych had to withstand the pressure of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite and EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, explaining why Kiev could not sign an agreement with Brussels. "After Vilnius, Viktor Yanukovych became unreadable. Key European leaders took the incident at the summit as a personal insult. And it was a very emotional reaction that had nothing to do with traditional diplomatic protocol. There was such a moment at the dinner during the summit. Yanukovych, trying to defuse the situation somehow, asks: "Or maybe we'll sign an agreement on open skies?" To which one of the leaders responds to him: "Are you crazy, don't you understand what's going on, do you honestly think the leaders of twenty-seven states are idiots?" In these words. It was a point of no return," recalled Yanukovych's replacement, the current president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, in an interview with Sonya Koshkina. If Yanukovych had signed an agreement with the EU then, the protest on the Maidan would have lost all meaning. However, this did not happen. At the same time, a week before, despite the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers to suspend the signing of the association agreement, Yanukovych stated: European integration is an alternative path for Ukraine. The next day, late in the evening - on the night of November 29-30, students were dispersed on the Maidan, which gave rise to a new form of protest - aggressive and conflictual. At the same time, Europe unconditionally supported the protesters, although in the same EU, no negotiations were held with the demonstrators after the seizure of administrative buildings, and police special forces were harshly involved in relation to them. Ukraina.ru I understood what prompted the former president of Ukraine to make a decision that involved Europeans in the internal political struggle in the country, which resulted in the loss of power by Yanukovych, and by Ukraine - Crimea and parts of Donbass.
The video contains a lot of inaccuracies, and in some places frankly false information. In 882, Prince Oleg of Novgorod Prophetic made a campaign to Kiev and captured it, proclaiming it "the mother of Russian cities." This event was of great importance, as the two largest East Slavic centers - Kiev and Novgorod - were united. Kiev became the capital of Russia. From that moment on, these lands and the peoples living on them began to be called Russians. They have never heard of any Ukraine or Ukrainians there. In 1654, the Hetman of the Zaporozhian Army, Bogdan Khmelnitsky, petitioned to transfer to the service of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. The request was granted by the tsar and approved by the Zemsky Sobor in Moscow. The motivating reason for the transition was the deliverance of the Orthodox population of Little Russia from religious and social oppression by the gentry and the Catholic clergy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. What kind of Russian compensation is being discussed in the video, it is not clear. In 1686 , Kiev was bought by the Russian Kingdom from the Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth for 146 thousand rubles The so-called Holodomor in the meaning of its artistic origin is a propaganda myth. In those years, famine raged in central Russia and in Kazazstan and in some European states. The so-called Ukrainian Insurgent army, during the Second World War, collaborated with the Nazis and committed atrocities against Jews, Russians, Poles and Ukrainians. In modern Ukraine, these Nazi bastards led by Bandera are elevated to the rank of heroes.
@@Kosiaka_Gaming Um? Who do you think these people are then? Whose lands are these, if not Ukraine? We have always lived here and continue to do so. All nations were formed in the 19th century. Does this mean that there were no peoples until this time?
@@Fm-io6kz You changed your way of thinking really fast, i am not saying they are not ukrainian lands, but kievskaya russ is not Ukraine. That's a fact. Multiple slavic russian tribes were living there, then they seperated.
@@Kosiaka_Gaming Not numerous. Only Ukrainians and Belarusians. Poles also lived in some territories that were not Russ, but Galicia-Volhynia. Modern Russians had nothing to do with Russ
Not partners, but competitors. Four years after the incident, former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, in an interview with journalist Anatoly Shariy, explained the reason why the Ukrainian leadership decided to refuse to sign an Association Agreement with the EU. "We conceived the Association Agreement as a way of modernizing Ukraine, technological renewal of our industry. It is no secret that advanced technologies come from such highly developed countries as Germany, Great Britain and so on. Therefore, naturally, our interest was in cooperation with these countries. But in the process of negotiations, I became convinced that this is an external wrapper. The EU has the same agreements with Egypt, with three dozen countries. But there were no breakthroughs anywhere. We should have figured out right away that there is no free cheese anywhere," Azarov said. According to him, Europe has perceived Ukraine as a competitor. The EU had no intention of helping to restore and improve a number of industrial sectors. "In order to raise our Antonov, I wanted it to cooperate not only with Russian companies, but also with such technology companies as Airbus," Azarov recalled. However, he did not see any interest, but on the contrary, he noticed a fear of potential competitors. According to the former prime minister, EU officials looked at Ukrainians "not in a partnership way." At the same time, for some European bureaucrats, the non-signing of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU was the end of their careers. Moreover, with this document, according to Azarov, they tried to finally tear Ukraine away from Russia and put an end to the possible restoration of the USSR in any form. Yanukovych himself recalled three years later: according to preliminary estimates, if the association agreement were signed, Ukraine would lose $200 billion. "When we saw the losses, we didn't see the compensators. And I told the EU: either you compensate us for the losses… They said, "We won't give you that kind of money, we don't have it."... Then there is a second way - let's sit down at the negotiating table with our strategic partner, Russia, and find a solution in this triangle," Yanukovych said. However, the EU did not agree to this, although Yanukovych did not propose to completely abandon the Association Agreement, but only to postpone it. According to the ex-president of Ukraine, it was necessary to return to discussing the signing of the agreement in March 2014. However, by that time Yanukovych himself was on the run, and there was a new government in Kiev. In June 2014, the new president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, will sign the association agreement, using the pen that was prepared for Yanukovych, which emphasized the symbolism of this step: Ukraine has again embarked on the path of European integration interrupted at the end of November 2013. "Most likely, there were a lot of incompetent advisers in Yanukovych's entourage who did not understand how and what to do. First, the super-PR of the Association Agreement began, and then they backed off. The agreement is a necessary thing, it had to be signed anyway. It was necessary to read it quietly, slowly, to talk, to negotiate with Russia, and not to PR... The agreement with the EU is no different from the agreement on the creation of a free trade zone with Russia. Ukraine signed the last one quietly in 2012. At the same time, the agreements do not contradict each other. Yes, there are controversial sides. But it was possible to create a Russia-Ukraine-EU working group at the level of ministers of economy and European officials and develop a roadmap where questions about exports and re-export could be resolved. These are technical issues," he notes in a comment Ukraina.ru economist Alexander Okhrimenko. According to him, such a "roadmap" could save the situation. According to Okhrimenko, economists talked about the need for its creation in 2013. However, instead, the authorities preferred PR, which led to sad consequences.
@@Fm-io6kz Fiction to justify the aggression is events of 2014. Putin said everything clearly on 02/24/2022 but you still don't understand how Russia justifies its actions
modern Ukraine is a descendant of the medieval Ukrainian empire called Kievan Rus, just as Italy is a descendant of the Italian empire called the Roman Empire. the modern Russian Federation is not a descendant of Kievan Rus, just as the Holy Roman Empire is not a descendant of the Roman Empire
@@vincentwong48 The modern Russian Federation is a splinter of the Rus empire like Romania, Spain, France, Moldova, Portugal, England are fragments of the Roman Empire. They were part of the Roman Empire but are not its descendants. They have their own history. Similarly, the Russian Federation is a fragment of the empire called Rus. Russian Federation is not a descendant of the state Rus and has its own history. Russian Federation in Middle Ages was called Moscovia, after Peter The First they started called themself 'Rossia' even not Russia, and started to say about continuity of the state Rus. It is like if the state Romania will start to say about continuity of the state Roman Empire, becase its name is Romania - very similar to name Roman Empire
The founder of Moscow or Moskovia came from Kievsksya Rus so they are definitely related. There were other influences later but their history is certainly intertwined.
Ukraine DID exist 1000 years ago as Kyivan Rus' (Belarus' and Ukraine)---At that time RuZZia did NOT exist.---Muscovy was not founded till 1147! You map of Rus' shows an expanded version which seems to include Novgorod--which was not really a part of Rus' but may have been a vassal for a brief period.
Russian history revisionism is powerful with the uneducated mass. Little do they know that Ukraine was a nation before Russia was even a nation. That kyiv city was established way before the city of Moscow was. That the Kyiv Rus AKA Ukraine was a powerful nation before Russia was a powerful nation.
I support russia. Ukraine is islamophobia it supports every anti Muslims country. Also the old government was great. I had Ukrainian friends who fled bc of the euromaidan revolution
@@scstudios430 No one fled from the Euromaidan revolution.. and Ukraine isn't Islamophobic. Russia is. Look at how they treat their Muslims brothers to the south. Georgia. Dagestan. Ossetia. Chechenya. Abkhazia. Transnistria. Tajikistan. Check out the Muslim city and Capitol of Chechenya called Gronzy. The Russians bombed it so badly that it was named one of the most destroyed city on Earth. 95% of the population was Muslims in Gronzy.
Although Ukraine might be allied with “islamphobic countries” it doesn’t necessarily mean that every Ukrainian hates muslims…. I am Ukrainian and has many Muslim friends, and I support Muslims and Muslim countries fighting against Israeli oppressors. Its less about the government and more about the people. Please try to be a little more open minded, we should fight against our oppressors together instead of fighting. I’ll even say it myself- the Ukrainian government isn’t great either, and has made many mistakes itself. But please,, supporting genocide is not the way to save other countries
Погуглите значение слова страна. Гетманщина как раз страной была, а вот Московское царство нет, так как оно было государством. А государство и страна различные понятия. Страна это единство народа, природы и культуры. Россия же это государство с различными народами, различной природой и различной культурой.
