Russian Won't Be Taught In Kyiv's Schools. How Do Ukrainians Feel About It? 

Know thy enemy?

because it's also the primary language of like half of the ukrainian population. or at least of the population of what used to be ukraine. with THIS attitude, they'll never take back ukrainian land!

The country s official language should be Ukrainian. People can still speak Russian at home. Or any other language.

Exactly, I thought more people would say that.

@@Ass_of_Amalek and WHO are you to deem what Ukraine can or cannot take back? Russia is having a bloody nose and it knows it can't fight Ukraine forever whilst Ukraine will not stop fighting until Russia leaves all of Ukraines pre 2014 territory

NO I’m from Ukraine and I’d never support the fake Ukraine government from 2014 who was bought by American money . And killed thousands ! Now you are fooled . Because u weren’t in there u didn’t see what I did

Yes i hope we in the west will have a long positive helpful relationship with Ukraine. The young people want a Ukraine that is independent and free and democratic. We will help them !

@Ligia Gom The Kremlin needs a makeover. Mariupol style.

@Ligia Gom Better to burn the furniture rather than buy as much as 1 cc of RuZZian gas. Слава Україні

@@Sunshine-un5ww The west doesn’t give a damn about Ukraine except use it to fight Russia as that’s truth

She probably sided with Nazi Germany

What babushka ? 00:50? She knows nothing what is she talking about

@@meso8848 oh yes you who joined in April 2022 so you could post $&!£ and get a few small coins from Putrid. _You_ know "nothing what" you are talking about.

@@sarac.3259 I know nothing what I’m talking about? Then go ahead tell me something I don’t know! Y’all hilarious about trolling and whatever … tell me something I don’t know ?

@@meso8848 dood your language is as trash as your equipments, cry bout it 😂😂😂😂😂

I'm from Belgrad, I feel her

@@EUGEN093 and still have Russian imperialistic flag(?) as a profile pic

@@stardust5548 Yes, I do

@@EUGEN093 when was Belgrad destroyed and occupied by foreign forces?

@@whitezombie10 are you kidding? Right?

wow

Yeah, I felt that one!

😂 You idiot 🤦‍♀️

The Ukrainian language is not recognized and not registered as an independent one, it was created in 1794 by Professor Hrushevsky on the instructions of the Austrian intelligence service and is a greatly modified Russian language with the addition of a large number of Polish, Romanian, German and even French words, there is no scientific literature in this language, it is a very poor language, teaching in it leads to the degradation of personality.

@@ZhovtoBlakytniy The Ukrainian language is not recognized and not registered as an independent one, it was created in 1794 by Professor Hrushevsky on the instructions of the Austrian intelligence service and is a greatly modified Russian language with the addition of a large number of Polish, Romanian, German and even French words, there is no scientific literature in this language, it is a very poor language, teaching in it leads to the degradation of personality.

russia populated those annexed areas and wanted to russify the whole of Ukraine. It is documented. A country's culture and language is its backbone and russia wanted to wipe that out. Ukraine was purposely corrupted by russian officials. They tried to make russian a second official language. In 2014 the previous Ukrainian president Yanukovych refused to sign the offer from the EU for Ukraine to join the EU even though the people wanted it. He wanted to stay aligned with putin. He was a Ukrainian yet this is what he did. The people protested and threw him out. He is living in russia now. And this is what they tried to do over and over. So when you say teaching russian is not in Ukraine's interest "for the time being"- I hope to God it is never.

This is my point as well. If nothing Russia has pushed the boundaries and tried to sabotage Ukraine through the usage of russian, then russian shouldn't be a language that's openly supported in Ukraine.

Ditto Estonia, Latvia, etc.

"since Russia invaded to prevent genocide of its people it's only natural that we go ahead with the genocide"

Trying to erase Russian culture from areas that were never Ukrainian is one big reason Borderland is being invaded and right-sized.

Ha! I'm American, I barely speak English after years of primary/secondary and finally, having a undergraduate education 😉

Can you please join the EU already?

@@bernardzsikla5640 lol i speak fluently 7 languages and can manage a communication in some more, I'm a mere French teacher in Albania 😅

@@mleise8292 we've been waiting and waiting 😅, too much prejudice towards us I guess.

This is why the EU are a bunch of losers

Yet they think the west are their friends while they are draining ukraine in blood but also in resousches

@@gta1kev Who is draining Ukranian blood on Ukranian soil?What about the Russian blood being drained on Ukranian soil 40000 dead and probably 120000 wounded. The crops will be well fertilised and the Ukranian scrap industry will flourish. Slava Ukraini, heroyam slava.

@@laurencehastings7473 lmfao you guys have 60+ Kia and counting 🤣

@@daniboi4067 source RT news

Yeah like when her father sided with Nazi Germany

Exactly, that's why Ukrainians should be better, and allow all ethnic minorities to learn in their own mother tongue from kindergarten to high school or even university. Ethnic Russians, Hungarians, Romanians, Tatars shouldn't be forced to learn in Ukrainian, the same way Catalans or Basques shouldn't be forced to learn in Spanish.

@@igorjee there is nothing wrong with teaching children the language of their new country, it's actually beneficial. In America the kids who speak another language get to take a special class to help learn the language, but that is the only class they get talked to in their native tongue. Where are you going to get the teachers to teach all the same classes in multiple languages?

@@igorjee Their parents can teach them their language at home. But if the majority speak another language, then it makes sense to know that language as well. Many Ukrainians know English too.

​@@Stephen85 It is Europe and it is only their new country insofar as the borders have been redrawn. Hungarians have been living in Transcarpathia for 1100 years as an ethnic block. Their kids shouldn't be forced to learn in another language. Yes, there must be a Ukrainian language class, but parents should have the freedom to choose between a fully Hungarian, a Ukrainian, or a bilingual school. This is normal in all of Europe and suppressing minority rights makes Ukraine look bad. "Where are you going to get the teachers to teach all the same classes in multiple languages?" Look at an ethnic map of Ukraine. There's no need for 'multiple' languages, it is not the USA where almost everyone is a different immigrant. Hungarians live among Hungarians in the westernmost part and there have been Hungarian teachers since Maria Theresa made public education compulsory in the 1770s.

@@melindacadarette3447 Hungarians and Romanians live in their respective regions where they are the local majority. Curtailing educational freedom doesn't reflect well on Ukrainian EU dreams.

It's time to rid Ukraine of the language & influence of the communist dictatorship. Ukraine has shown they are no longer slaves to the czarina

That’s completely not true at all u idiot

"How could any of Europe feel differently with Putin's old Soviet-like invasion?" If nothing else, this has shown the folly of energy dependence on a perennial autocracy, just like the decoupling that's starting with China.

The Ukrainian language is not recognized and not registered as an independent one, it was created in 1794 by Professor Hrushevsky on the instructions of the Austrian intelligence service and is a greatly modified Russian language with the addition of a large number of Polish, Romanian, German and even French words, there is no scientific literature in this language, it is a very poor language, teaching in it leads to the degradation of personality.

@@mis4nthr0p3 The Ukrainian language is not recognized and not registered as an independent one, it was created in 1794 by Professor Hrushevsky on the instructions of the Austrian intelligence service and is a greatly modified Russian language with the addition of a large number of Polish, Romanian, German and even French words, there is no scientific literature in this language, it is a very poor language, teaching in it leads to the degradation of personality.

The Irony with this is soo silly haha

That just means he still gonna speak the language once beeing a fullgrown man +Ukrainian +English probably, which makes him an asset to mankind.

So what? He don't want to keep studying language of aggressor. What's wrong with it?

@@stardust5548 he already speaks it, it is his native tongue, duh. Otherwise his mother would talk to him in Ukrainian.

@@stardust5548 it is his own language) that is why eastern Ukraine rebelled against west

it even says in Wikipedia that there's a language law in Ukraine that bans Russian

As it should be.

@@DissectGibberish well let's ban Spanish in the US

​@@roxannebabayenne1967 You mean on the webpage that everyone can edit?

@@MeeesterBond17 I see you haven't tried editing Wikipedia in your life but a sort of person who uncritically believes what others tell about Wikipedia

To be fair it is not just the colors blue and yellow that have been targets... we must not forget the letter “Z” is also on the hit list... Never have my pets Zippy, Zinger, and Zelda looked more suspicious🙀

Uhhh when did Russia ban Ukrainian?

@@MonsterMacLLC It could be worse. They might have been called Zippy, Obliger and Velda. 😱

Idk about that ban in Russia, I only heard about ban of Russian colours in Ukraine, since 2014.

@@azadthebutt There are a lot of videos from the streets of Russia about banning Ukrainian colors, books and language.

Don't leave it too long or it may be called Russia ! Still, you can always visit the Ukraine's down in Bulgaria .... suddenly the place is crawling with them.

@@sticky59 Bullshit. The ruzzians have NO chance of winning this "special military operation' AKA a genocidal invasion.

I spent 5 weeks there this past April/May delivering medical supplies into Ukraine and taking refugees out. It was an amazing experience and I for one have nothing but respect for the Ukrainian people.

Okay. Admiration at removing and banning a different language? I don’t know where you’re from but that would be like banning and restricting Spanish in schools as a language in America. Why? Seems pretty hateful and xenophobic to me. There is a significant population of people who speak Russian and it is native language in whole of Ukraine. Why is it admirable to single out ethnic minorities or people who speak a minority language?

@@sticky59 nah. At this point it seems unlikely Kiev and western Ukraine would be. Even in Will become Novorossiya it is not clear it will be Russian Federation. The way things were in Crimean referendum there was vote for restoring 1992 constitution(autonomous region in Ukraine with extreme autonomy) or accession to Russia. Something similar will be happening in places like Zaporizhzhia and Kherson in September 2022 word has it. Nikolaev and Kharkov will probably follow soon after that. The options will probably be similar, though obviously there is no 1992 constitution the same way as with Crimea. Unclear if autonomy within Ukraine will be an option since Kiev will never respect that and Crimea was essentially an closer to independent state under 1992 constitution. Probably it will be independence or no and then if independence yes or no to being part of Russian Federation. So I’m summary, all these soon to be former Ukrainian regions will most likely vote to leave Ukraine but may not vote to join Russian Federation. Even if they do vote to join Russian Federation it is not guaranteed Russia will annex them, same as with Donetsk and Luhansk. They have voted to join Russia but Russia has never approved their ascension and only even recognized them as independent states this year. Perhaps they will all form a new state, a Novorossiyaian confederation of sorts if Russia does not allow their ascension.

Crazy, isn’t it 😂

Nah, Putin dont care about it. He will just make infinitely disputed territories in ukraine, so they cant join the nato/EU. There in the rules of accession it says about disputed territories, the same in Georgia

@@gothluv4740 Difference is Ukraine can pack a punch so Russia can't keep fighting an indefinite war with Ukraine.

Россия просто спасает нас от нацистов вроде вас. Уже третий раз.

yeh english is a middle term for all of us in europe to understand eachother

@@hillbillykiller7726 It's a kind of cuckoo egg in EU after Brexit but whatever 🙂

English is just practical as its international.

English is one of the simplest languages to learn, it's a hybrid language born of necessity, so that French speakers of Scandinavian heritage could communicate with their Anglo-Saxon subjects. It has become the lingua franca of the world, one of the main reasons for that is it's simplicity. I say that as a native German and English speaker, Austrian father British mother, German is much, much harder to become proficient in.

Re: English is kind of a cuckoo egg... So true! 🤣 I'm a native English speaker from the US and can attest to the fact that there are MUCH better languages out there! But since English just adopts words, phrases, and sentence structures from all other languages, it is a nice, open-ended middle-ground that anyone can make their own. It's sort of a symbiotic synergy that gets better the more languages it incorporates.

👏 👍 👍.....

Absolutely a must!

Wouldn't converting wide gauge rail lines to stanard gauge European rail lines cause russkie trains to derail? Good idea!

It's a part of the eu process as having available different languages in the curriculum as second and third language.

@@meow2u22 this is the reason why the gauge is different, in war time this difference matters a lot!!!!!!! logistics and supply chain basically broken.

Too expensive and for little benefit. They won't do it.

by world you mean west?

I'm from Mexico and I don't support Ukraine

@@emirion11 no. There have been comments of support from Africa, Europe, South America, Australia, the Phillipines. All over. I am very interested in just how wide the support reaches so I notice.

@@sarahs.thorpe857 So then you must support russia otherwise you would not be on this channel commenting as you are. Or perhaps you are not interested in any of what is occurring in Ukraine. Or perhaps you are a little russian bot using a western name. There have been many. But either way, it doesnt matter as so many nations of the world support the independent Ukraine fighting its historical aggressor russia. I bet it must have pissed putin off when Gorbachov dissolved the Soviet Union in 1991 and all those countries became independent.

@@thebusybee7080 "so many nations of the world" It's pretty much just America and its vassals

Lmao you think self-hating is cute?

Rafail, that's a very sweet story. I hope you do get back there.

@@stvk99 no saw that someone else is speaking their language and they don't because of russian oppression on the language back in time

Kharkiv will fall and become 🇷🇺

@@rafailspari1529 didn't seem to care much before? by the way, Kharkov was founded by the Russian Tsar Alexey Mikhaylovich in 1654.

That was then, this is now. Now you are losing your language because nobody wants to speak it except for the elderly. You *had* good momentum a few short decades back to revive Irish, but it ran out of steam and flopped. Unless, of course, it is "Anglo-Irish" you are promoting as "your own language".

@@matthewjohnson1749 are you THE Matthew Raphael Johnson? Love your work

I've always wondered why Celtic is struggling in today's world in Ireland. Certainly now, being located in the liberal West, Ireland would and should not have any problems reestablishing the dominance of Celtic. All the groundwork is there to let it flourish. I can't but think it's an apathy on the part of the people and politicians to their linguistic history. Sad.

@@andremacko5408 prolly because English is the language of world business. Many companies open their European headquarters in Ireland in part because they have a big population of native English speakers to draw upon. But yeah, to see Gaelic make a comeback in Ireland would be pretty awesome!

@@maireboy The point that as Rus' (Ukraine) expanded in medieval times into Finno Ugric territory is undisputed and introduced clerical (church Slavonic) and no doubt the vernacular Ukrainian of those times is not disputed. However Ukrainian on an academic linguistic level is most closely related to Bilarusian, Slovak, Polish, Serbo Croatian in that order before being related to the language of Moscow. I'm trying to avoid the term Russian language which as you know is a fairly recent artificial moniker created in 1721. Prior to that the area was sooner known as Moscovia or Tataria. I don't understand your point of the same language group or influence of polish on Ukrainian. All languages are influenced by their neighbours and geography. Are you implying Ukrainian is not it's own language and requires outside influences to justify its existence. It certainly seems that way when you bring up surzhyk which is a destructive slang that is local and has no intelligibility between regions of Ukraine. It's like saying the patois of Jamaica is fully understandable by the patois of Barbados. Saying there was publishing in Ukrainian during Soviet times is a cruel joke. Just read Kolasky's education in Soviet Ukraine and Dzuba's internationalism or Russification blows that ridiculous statement out of the water like the battleship Moskva. Finally if you think this is a war over language then you must also believe all Ukrainians are Nazisi including the Jewish democratically elected president of Ukraine, that NATO wants to attack Russia. It's neither of those 3. It's about having a democratic Ukraine with all its flaws on the Russian Federation's border prospering while Putin and his cronies and other despots having to explain to all the peoples ( ethnicities) of Russia why they are being robbed by him and his oligarchs and why China is turning Russia into its own vassal state. I guess Putin fears his Federation is becoming less EURasia and becoming more eurASIA.

Then don't you love also ukranians that speak Russian? They are Ukrainian too... But their country discriminate them. It's not a democracy, it's just nationalist propaganda financed by usa and their oligarchy (like euromaidan golpe).

@@untipo. what makes those ppl Ukrainian?

Ukrainian is my second language, English first. I think Ukrainian is melodic, and not too difficult to learn naturally. The alphabet can be intimidating for those used to a Latin script, but if you learn like you did as a child from listening it can be a little easier. When it does come to learning to read it, the words almost always sound like they're spelled unlike English 😁

As a native speaker of both they sound identical just different vocabularies and slightly different dialects. But I understand the praise of Ukraine, during these times

My fart is more uplifting. Would you like me to send an MP3 so you can relax and do your pilates better??

@@ZhovtoBlakytniy Whatever is forced on someone is biter. No matter how sweet it really is in life. Keep forcing the Russians with several things and you will be annihilated in the end.... Why don't you just allow parents to choose? You tried that 8 years ago and now they will have referendums and.... bye bye small_russians..... One thing I learned from this conflict: Ukrainians are unable to learn anything...... (you really hate yourselves so much??)

I Truly love both. The ancient culture and civilization of Both but I am COSSACK at heart

Well said. :)

Lmaoooo the whole country knows Russian they just like to pretend the don't. Even the president has a Russian accent when speaking Ukrainian😂😂😂 You don't have a slightest idea what you're talking about. Come to Odessa or Donetsk and tell them Russian is a foreign language, see how people will look at you

It is not a foreign language you are a complete liar and idiot . Shame on your mother

Australia is not the best example, because English is the state language because of colonization. In that regard Ukrainian language is more comparable to indigenous Australian languages - and I think they have the right to have their own national language. Then you can learn second, third or even fourth language on top of that depending on your personal preferences and ambitions.

I am Irish, you have to learn to let go of he past. English (how were the aggressor in our case) is the most commonly spoken language here. This Vlog only stated that it will no longer be thought in Kyiv. That does not mean it will cease to he thought in the Eastern parts of Ukraine like Donetsk and Luhansk. Whatever the decision of the Ukrainian people is, the world needs to respect their choice. Слава Україні

It's in Kiev. They definitely didn't go to Zaporizhye or even Kharkiv that's under bombardment now

@@ediccartman7252 and?

@@Almighty_God_s_daughter I mean, not all of them live their ordinary life. Kiev and Lviv isn't all Ukraine :))

@@ediccartman7252 Kyiv is not under bombardment? Are you shure? Cuz something dropped into my father's appartment building yard and blown out reinforced door to the stairs, destroying he's balcony and kitchen in the process. I guess it was fireworks. It's not that somebody wants to destroy capital's infrastructure, to trigger riots i guess

@@user-ge6eh3fg2b I wrote it 4 months ago. Not from Ukraine, but as far as I remember , it was relatively quiet in Kiev back then.

Well Scandinavian and Ukrainian languages are related as they are both Indo-European languages.

I was surprised when learning danish that the syntax was sometimes more similar to Polish and Czech than to English

You‘d be thrilled to learn about how much it has in common with russian language

@@smileyxDmiley1 i would, why wouldn't i?

@@JH-pv6rd No, Ukrainian and Scandinavian languages are not related. Ukrainian is Slavic, Scandinavian languages are Germanic. They have little to nothing in common. Tigers and elephants are both African mammals - but that doesn't mean they are similar animals.

Thank you for understanding, pal. I always find it incredibly rude or a sign of bad behaviour when someone tries to speak to me in ruSSian when we can speak in either Ukrainian or English.

Nie ucz się chłopie polskiego, i tak nie mamy niczego ciekawego do powiedzenia

BUT ISN'T BOTH LANGUAGES ALMOST SAME OR ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT AND DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND FOR ANYONE NOT KNOWING UKRAINIAN OR RUSSIAN.

@@moneywisefinserve268 ruSSian and Ukrainian are as similar as Italian and Spanish (+-)

@@Gambol_25 MEANS ITS TOTALLY DIFFERENT, LANGUAGES. NO COMMONALITY

Actually it's not. They are switching between Russian and Ukrainian

Only one person was talking russian

Ironic that you are dumb...

@@Someone-lr3zx People at 0:9, 0:29, 1:04, 1:49, 2:05 were speaking Russian, others in ukrainian. if you don’t actually know the languages don’t talk abt it

@@Alina-kot я не знаю? Все говорили на украинском в отличии от одного

They could do this before as well. It’s not Russia.

They were a democracy before the war started. Contrary to propaganda, the majority of the ethic Russians in Ukraine voted for President Zelenskyy rather than Moscow's nominee.

@@artemkalinchuk yes told this to 50 people burned alive in Odesa in 2014 for being pro russian

In the time before 2014 it was still risky to speak your mind openly. And at that time eliminating Russian from schools would have been nearly impossible, given the influence exercised by Moscow through its puppets in Ukrainian politics. That's why Yanukovych was toppled by the Euromaidan in the first place - he didn't act as a president of Ukraine, he acted as a Russian-appointed governor of Ukraine.

@@user-2-2-8 during wartime, support of the enemy can be counted as treason. It’s like that in any country.

Bi-lingual....with their 2nd language being English

And which one is mainly taugh in public schools?

@@puraLusa Englesi!!! Most people though speak and understand Afrikaans in Southern Africa and Namibia.Although the government will never admit.

@@sakkiestoffberg4052 maybe its to make all schools accessible to new students no matter from where in south africa they come from. Also, english is such a fast learning language that it helps with migrant kids to. So, in all, I think its a smart choice.

Is it though? As a Pole i cant really tell the difference between Russian and Ukrainian. Maybe because Ukrainians and Russians have pretty much the same accent? I dunno. Note that i actually can understand some Slovakian and a little bit of Czech. But, for instance, i have no idea if people in this video speak Ukrainian or Russian (and hehe, i even have a lot of neighbours from Ukraine, so i guess i should be more used to Ukrainian [in fact like 100-150k people living in my city now are Ukrainian]).

My experience is completely different. I'm from Germany and we have huge bunches of Ukrainian refugees here. In school I took Russian classes. I don't speak it fluently and have many grammatical errors in my speech, but one can understand easily...so communicating in Russian works fine. I was still a student when the first refugees from Ukraine arrived...I saw that they were always alone on the yard in the breaks, so I decided to go up to them and try to talk a little bit - which worked out fine! They all speak Russian and I've never had any troubles communicating with them in Russian.

@@krowaswieta7944 I'm just speaking on behalf of Ukrainian speakers' experiences. As for most Polish people, I wouldn't know. Although... my Ukrainian partner has been teaching several Polish students both languages, and they seem to have a way easier time with Ukrainian than Russian for obvious reasons

​@@cheoilnaheireann_fleadh3944 well obviously.... the majority of Ukrainians already know how to speak Russian alongside Ukrainian.

@@soupisgood44 Well, again - maybe its because Russians have almost the same accent as Ukrainians. I feel like accent makes huge difference in perceiving a language. The fact is though that from slavic lanuages i can understand the best Slovakian, and a little bit less Czech. And ye, its probably easier to get Serbian/Croatian than Russia/Belarusian/Ukrainian for me as well. And tbh i have no idea what are the differences and simmilarities between these languages (Ukrainian/Russian/Belarusian). But they really sound very simmilar to each other (or maybe im deaf).

Hahaha weak

@@stvk99 She has more character than you'll ever have Orc troll 😂

@@countmorbid3187 so am I an orc or a troll? These are 2 different species🤔

@@stvk99 u haven't kept with the times An orc troll is a russian defendant in internet An orc is an invasior of countries A zombie is someone who believes in russian propaganda A tankie is a guy who defends russia cause of soviets A troll is someone who likes to spread hatred in the internet despite political leniancies A tin foil qanon troll is someone who defends russian action cause he/ she is on love of putin and loves dictators. Get it? Cause I do and I'm old I shouldn't but it's so easy.

@@puraLusa it doesn't make sense though. use vatnik troll at least, should be in your updated CIA agenda note.

Lol, I know.

Exactly, in Soviet Union Ukrainian was frowned upon so the older generation don’t know it

The Finns' first language used to be Swedish, because of their occupation by Sweden. But, after it gained independence, now Finland's language is Finnish. It's the same situation in Ukraine.

@@LaurelCanyon1969 I cant fully understand your comment as I dont know the differences between Finnish and Swedish, so I just trust you on that)) What seems very ridiculous to me is the whole exaggeration of fake problems by the politics and media. In Ukraine most people just speak russian (which is quite different from ua), so there is no need to discuss it so such extent. Ukrainian is being used in some regions and taught as well and thats perfect too. What I know for sure is that Zelensky speaks russian to his family when no media is present, i could bet quite the money on it. I have a country to compare the situation to: i study in Belgium and it has 3 official languages. With the anmount of minorities in Ukraine they could do the same and move on. Its "european and democratic"and there's nothing wrong with using several languages throughout the country. To me, it would be a sight of education and acceptance. Sorry for the long comment) Edit: there are Hungarian speaking provinces, polish speaking, and (how surprising) russian speaking ones. This issue is not only political but also simply geographic.

@@naomix7738 The Finnish language is completely different from Swedish and the other Nordic languages. Its alphabet has 29 letters and it's actually of Turkish origin. I'm surprised you didn't know this if you have such a strong opinion about European languages. My point is - the language of the Finns is Finnish, they only switched to Swedish because of their country's occupation by Sweden. And the language of the Ukrainians is Ukrainian, not Russian which they inherited from their occupation by Russia (before the 1990s). And finally how you can know anything 'for sure' about what language Zelensky speaks at home, in private. Unless you have the magical ability to transform yourself into a fly and sit on his living room wall?

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And why should be english or german? Aren't them relics of germanic colonizations, genocides, wars, emperialism and so on?

@@gabrieleguerrisi4335 If we take the history in hands like that , french and spanish are the same . History remains history , only Russia didn't learn't from history , but nowadays English and German , French and Spanish are kinda of universal languages .

At present and throughout much of history, yep. Ancient men said in writing what you just said, in their own words but exactly the same point. & War itself is a decrepit behavior based on greed, for various things - material or egotistical. Thanks for making me consciously think that.

And yet their leader's first lanuage is Russian , and he enforced the killing of his own people by the nazi Azov's . You 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 are so simple minded to the point of ignorance!

Slava Ukraini! Chwała Polsce! 🇺🇦❤️🇵🇱

@BioEngineerHelix if you don't know Ukrainian/russian why do you write about them???

@BioEngineerHelix "Ukrainian is Russian"? Do you know *either* of these languages? There is not just one difference, there are many significant differences. They really are two separate but related languages. It is no longer plausible or acceptable to pretend Ukrainian is just a dialect of any other language, far less of Russian.

Glory to you, my dear Polish. Can you guess how many people from Ukraine have been working in Russia? How many students studied and did their career in Russia? A few millions, my dear. Studying languages is always benefit and free of charge benefit in this case (at schools) . It was giving people choice to work and live wherever they wanted in Eu or in Russia before all this mess. Banning languages - less possibility for future choice. Be smart

Lol well said

@@connorkenway09 No, not so well said. First of all, although under the Soviet Union, Russian was the official language of Party and Government, Ukraine was allowed to legalize Ukrainian as an official language for the Republic, which they did. Secondly, Russian was the official language for the whole country for a lot longer than the Soviet Union or Ukraine even existed -- unless you buy into the Ukrainian Nationalist *myth* that Ancient Rus, was always synonymous with 'Ukraine'. Thirdly, despite the blackening the language get from Putin's saying such great evils in Russian, it is still such an important language of literature than even many great Ukrainian writers wrote in Russian. I have in mind not just Gogol, but Ilf & Petrov (from Odessa). Even the Ukrainian Nationalist poet Shevchenko wrote poetry in both languages. So don't let Putin's wicked words you: Russian is far more than a Soviet relic. Finally, there are two things that I see confuse Americans when contemplating Ukrainian national identity and two languages: 1) Russians and Ukrainians share a common origin in Rus and the Slavic tribes Grand Prince Vladimiir united under his rule 2) the two languages really are closely related. English has no parallel, since all the languages related to English are *much* more different from English than Ukrainian from Russian. We might have had such a parallel if the Norman French had not conquered Britain in 1066.

@@matthewjohnson1749 Would Russian and Ukrainian be about as close to one another as Spanish and Portuguese? And it wouldn't surprise me if Kyivan Rus used Church Slavonic as its literary language (just as western Christendom used Latin, or the Muslim world used Arabic), while the spoken language would have been a gradual continuum, effectively old Russian in the north gradually transforming into something more like Ukrainian as you headed further south.

As if war is something of the past… and as if there isn’t a Russian minority in Ukraine… (who didn’t even chose for this war anyway)

@@matthewjohnson1749 You miss the point. It is important to promote your own language instead of the language of an empire that controlled your people for so long. Some founders of Czech independednce only wrote and spoke German, but understood that if Czech people want their own state and destiny, their language will need to become the only one official. Nobody denies that German culture is vast and also important to us.

And if the Irish only spoke Gaelic, what opportunities would people have? Hardly any. They have far more opportunities precisely because they speak English. Call it imperialism or colonisation, it doesn't matter, what matters is whether or not speaking English has been beneficial to them.

@@deang5622 I am German Swabian and speak my dialect. But can also speak English. Of course, English is the number one world language in the 21st century. When England occupied the Irish it certainly wasn't. It's just an example. I could name dozens. As for Russian opportunism, it is the arrogance and inferiority complex of an artificial "Great Nation". See the example of Napoleon's "Grand Nation" in France. What % of Russian citizens speak Russian as their mother tongue? Overall most okay. But the number of minorities is huge. Over 100. So an artificial nation that is only defined with the colonial Tsarist "Soviet language". Exploitation, slavery and abuse for war and fascist terror.

@charles In the GDR it was said that the Russians are our brothers. You can choose your friends. Your brothers don't.

@@deang5622 were they asked about what they want? :/

@charles English is the new international language, we don't need ruZZian anymore...

yeah at his age learning the language of the state in which he spend his entire life is tough.

Yeah, old people in the US are a big problem as well. We call them trumptards.

He is Russian, he speaks Russian really well. Ukraine has many Russian, just like other former USSR countries, not a surprise. Such people in Ukraine usually help Putin and give him information. :)

That is not too surprising. It happened everywhere in the world where a dominating culture has gained more and more prestige. Many local languages in Europe are despised by their own native speakers because they have been led to think that the standard national language is the only prestige language, even if that is not true.

This is a result of targeted internal politics throughout soviet-era days. Not only language, but own culture was laughed upon via media. Many movies of soviet era, and many russian movies, portray Ukrainians as dumb villagers. And it was like that for decades, so it's not surprising that it passed down with generations, unfortunately.

Ukraine has been occupied by russia for almost 400 years. Millions Ukrainian s were killed just for being Ukrainians. We are bearing such a painful trauma but we will get better eventually.

Ukrainian was humiliated for centuries. That's why.

I am from Russia and for me Ukrainian is considered something rustic too, in the village something close to Ukrainian is spoken. Ukrainian and Belorussian were old Russian languages, and we all spoke them, but then they started making up rules and people like Pushkin and so on and so forth appeared, who changed these languages and made it more structured and created some kind of official accent. So it's not surprising.

In Ukraine, they don’t have bilingualism - it’s diglossia,”. (Diglossia is a term that describes when two or more languages are used under different conditions within a community, often by the same speakers.) One language is termed “high,” and the second “low” referring to their status or prestige in society. in Kyiv, the Russian Sovieticus idea of Russian being the “high,” still shows among the older generation is still to some part considered to be prestigious but this is getting slowly rubbed out… In Ukraine, Russian language and its status are both consequences of the genocide done to the people of Ukraine and an imperialistic of the Soviet Union in Ukraine . Due to its post-colonial status, the Ukrainian language was pushed to the margins of all areas of life. In Tsarist Russia, the Ukrainian language suffered from numerous prohibitions. For instance, in 1863 Valuyev Circular, a decree suspending the publication of many religious and educational texts in Ukrainian, or as the Russians called it, Little Russian, denied its existence. The younger Ukrainian generation is now taking back their culture and finding their way back to Ukraine's own roots and they are staring to be proud of their own true history (without Kremlins propaganda and myths ) and are now asserting their national identity and own language as it is their god-given the right to do so . According to polls by the Razumkov Center, in 2017 some 68 percent of Ukrainians said Ukrainian was their native language. Only 14 percent consider Russian to be their native language, while 17 percent said they were native speakers of both Ukrainian and Russian. Russian propaganda likes to misrepresent Ukraine as a country sharply divided geographically, ethnically and politically along linguistic lines for Kremlins agenda and propaganda needs: there are ethnic Russians in the east and south and in Ukraine’s Crimea who speak Russian, and ethnic Ukrainians in the west who speak Ukrainian, the story goes. But at same time Kremlin propaganda will pump out the Russian propaganda MYTH that Ukrainians and Russians are at the same time “one people,” (meaning Ukrainians are Russians as there is acceding to the Kremlin no such thing as Ukrainians ) the Kremlin’s incoherent and false narrative continues. It is a narrative that is sometimes picked up and lazily repeated by Western media. The real situation is much more complicated than the Kremlin’s propaganda, of course. Many people in the east speak Ukrainian as their native language (mainly in rural areas), and many people in the west speak Russian as their native language (mainly in urban areas). Some speak a blend of the two languages, called “surzhyk” combining elements of the vocabulary and grammar of the two languages in a variety of mixes, depending on the locality. Surzhyk is most prevalent in east-central Ukraine but can be heard in all parts of the country, especially in areas adjacent to big Russian-speaking cities. This complex linguistic landscape has been shaped, mainly, by centuries of Russian imperialism - first under the Russian Tsardom and Empire, and later under the Russian dominated Soviet Union. The Russian government has in the history and are still today underhandedly and covertly promoting the spread of the Russian language and Russian dominance over Ukraine. Russia even promotes this idea of a justifiable and rightful dominance over Ukraine not just to its own Russians and the world in general but among the native Ukrainian population as well... They do this by actively refusing to acknowledge the historical facts and the existence of the Ukrainian language and take every opportunity to belittle Ukrainian history by calling it a myth; this way Moscow is indirectly saying that Ukrainian history never existed and Ukrainian people are just nothing more than confused little Russians.. If we look back in time this is nothing new, the Russian Minister of Internal Affairs Pyotr Valuev in 1863 issued a secret decree that banned the publication of religious texts and educational texts written in the Ukrainian language Emperor Alexander II expanded this ban by issuing the Ems Ukaz in 1876 (which lapsed in 1905). The Ukaz banned all Ukrainian language books and song lyrics, as well as the importation of such works. Furthermore, Ukrainian-language public performances, plays, and lectures were forbidden During the Soviet times, the attitude to Ukrainian language and culture went through periods of suppression (during the period of Stalinism) While officially there was no state language in the Soviet Union until 1989, Russian in practice had an implicitly privileged position as the only language widely spoken across the country From around the 1960s nearly all dissertations were required to be written in Russian That caused most scientific works to be written exclusively in Russian. Studying Russian in all schools was not optional, but the requirement. SO DO NOT COME SCREENING about Russian language rights in UKRAINE Mr Putin after Russia has forcefully been running a linguistic genocide on the Ukrainian language for years. Language is the soul of a nation and this is why Russians are pushing Russian in Ukraine to destroy the soul of the Ukrainian nation ... The Russian language is a sign of a "low-born" person a sovieticus dimwit that directly or indirectly is by using Russian in Ukraine supporting the linguistic genocide The Kremlin has been running a linguistic genocide on the Ukrainian language for years.. Russian should not be taught in Ukrainian kindergartens and schools "not to spoil child's speech." and the future sole of the Ukrainian nation and that is what Russian is really trying to do by attacking the Ukrainian language .. "Russian" really should be called 'Muscoviyan " was created in 17 century, and many Russians 'Muscovians "speakers don't understand this fact ! Under Peter the Greats Russia , (let's call it what it really is Muscovy ) and during the the reign of Peter the Great lots of words were borrowed not only from German, but also from Dutch, heavily. So, 11 century Ukrainian (found as a graffiti on Sophia of Kyiv) example: Maty ne khotjachy ditychja bizhja gеt In modern Ukrainian, it is Maty ne khotjachy dytyny bizhytj hеtj (pronounced the same as written) In modern Russian, it is Matj nje khotja (no "chy") rjebjonka bjezhyt prochj (written) Matj nji khatja (no "chy") rjibjonka bjizhyt prochj (pronounced)

@@jimjonsen1591 Pure BS In 1989 in one of SSSR countries Ukraine Ukrainian language was proclaimed as official language. So stop bullshit, Ukrainian language was recognized as official even while they was still part of SSSR. In 1994 on referendum in Donetsk and Lughansk, and 90% of people voted for Russian language to be recognized as official language but Ukrainian parliament ignored that completely and only Ukrainian language was official, any other was language of minorities. In constitution of Ukraine in 1996 Russian language was recognized with all other languages as minority language. Same year 1996 Ukraine signed united nation resolution of minority languages but it delayed till 2002 to recognize it in parliament and even then they recognized only part of it. That phase was done when Donbas and lugansk supported Viktor Yanukovych as president in 2004 with 91% Lugansk - 93%. Donetsk. Then problems started, Donetsk and Lugansk started developing extremist feelings and asking for Russian language to be recognized as official language in those parts of Ukraine and asking for federalization, not independence or separation from Ukraine. In 2006 city of Kharkov and regional administration proclaimed Russian language as official language in the region. and after almost whole southern Ukraine followed. Lughansk, Donetsk, Nikolaev, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia etc. While Yanukovych was president in 2012 Ukraine recognized Russian as regional official language. That meant Russian speakers could finally use Russian language in regional administration. But that didn't go peacefully, there was fighting in parliament and Vladimir Litvin who was president of parliament was trying to step down twice to avoid signing the law, but both times parliament gave them absolute support not letting him step down. However law passed and 10. August 2012 that law was on power. From that date a lot of Ukrainian cities proclaimed Russian as official language, Odesa, Kharkov, Herson, Nikolaev, Zaporizhzhia, Sevastopol,Dnepr, Lugansk, Krasnyi Luch and whole regions Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Kherson, Nikolaev i Dnjepropetrovsk. Same as that Hungarian language became official in Berehove (Transkarpatië) and Moldavian in some small village and Romanian in Bila Tserkva. When new Ukrainian government took power after coup de etat, parliament voted to cancel the law from 2012 and Russia used that fact to condemn Ukraine for abusing minorities rights in 2014. Even EU parliament called Ukraine to protect law of minority languages and secretary of europe council expressed disagreement with Ukraine decision. Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe expressed worry about further possible conflict because of that decision. Bulgarian and Romanian foreign ministers told that is wrong step and expressed disagreement and Greece foreign minister expressed his disappointment. Even Poland and Hungary condemned that step calling it mistake. Because of all that pressure Oleksandr Turchynov did not sign the law and old law protecting minority languages stayed. In April 2015 Verkhovna Rada prohibited both comunistic and nazistic simbols and propaganda. names of cities, streets and other places with names resembling anything with communists had to be changed. Dnepropetrovsk became Dnepr and Kirovograd became Kropyvnytskyi for example. Derusification became the main goal and Ukraine was taking down or changing things written on Russian even on airports and train stations. And from 2026 everything everywhere in Ukraine had to be only on Ukrainian and English language. Ukrainians even organized curses of Ukrainian in Russian speaking territories under their control and in 2017 Ukrainian language became one and only official language in whole Ukraine controlled territory. In June 2016 the law that force every radio station in Ukraine to play at least 25% of their songs on Ukrainian, raising to 35% after a year. Law also forced tv station to 60% of news be on Ukrainian language and law came to power 9 November on national day of Ukrainian language. Economist warned right away that could fire future war in the country. Putin of course used that to accuse ukrainians of Ukrainian nationalists trying to delete Russian culture. In May 2017 Ukraine brought law that force every TV station that work in Ukraine to have 75% of tv program exclusively on Ukrainian language. In 2017 poroshenko brough education law in which Ukrainian language is only one in schools from 5th grade and up. Other language could be learned as additional language, nothing more. That law brought critics from Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary because of their minorities in Ukraine. In 2019 while poroshenko still on power new law was brought and it forced all movies made in Ukraine to be on Ukrainian or any of official languages of EU ( specifically made to block Russian language). TV distribution houses had to be sure that 90% of content is on Ukrainian only. Internet presentations, theater, art, recreation, sport everything that happening in whole Ukraine had to be officially on Ukrainian language. Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó said that law is unacceptable and that is part of peter poroshenko anti Hungarian politic. 22 May of 2019 EU parament asking of Venice Commission (officially European Commission for Democracy through Law) to analyze the law and give recommendations and in same year they answered that various paragraphs did not success to balance forcing of Ukrainian language and defending minorities languages. Before Zelensky came to power law was again changed allowing high school use of minority languages but classes had to be on Ukrainian. Basically kids was allowed to talk their own mother tong between them. Zelensky came on power and things was looking better, they implemented 6 from 7 recommendations of Venice Commision. Now i could give you some statistics about language but i am tired from translating this on english. You have text in Indeh HR Ivan Covic wrote it and its great text. Title is "Što se dogodilo s ruskim jezikom u Ukrajini i kakve to veze ima s ratom?"

are you from Feb 2022?

@@andrewbrock4636 feb 2023

Great answer!! thanks

*Heroyam slava.*

I get what you’re saying, but (hopefully) Russia won’t be an enemy forever. They will, however the war ends, be Ukraine’s neighbors forever. You should be smart enough to set current actions of a government apart from the language, culture and history of a country/people. The truth is that most Ukrainians, Russians, Belorussians and most Lithianians are all one people with common roots and history. WW2 intertwined us even more. My grandparents are: 1 Russian from Surazh (close to Ukraine and Belarus), 1 Belorussian from Minsk, and 2 from Ukraine (Nezhin and Mariupol). All of them ended up in Stalingrad after the war. I was born in Leningrad. Immigrated to the US in 1989 and only have a US citizenship. I learned Russian as my first language, French as my second, Italian third and English fourth. You have a lot of reasons to hate all things Russian right now. I know… I left it for great reasons. Just realize that languages should not be a source of hate.

@@afcgeo882 You need to brush up on the history of Ukraine and how they have been brutalised by the Soviet Union (you know ruZZians) for so long before running off about how they are all brothers with a common history and roots. Look at the history and see who is the aggrieved peoples and what country did the aggrieving.

@@braveworld2707 I’ll bet I know Ukrainian history better than you… test me. Both countries come from the Varangian Kievan Rus. Ukraine was mostly a subject of Poland/Lithuania until Catherine the Great kicked the Ottomans out of its Eastern parts. Since then, what is today’s Ukraine (arbitrarily made up by the USSR) used to be half under Poland and half under Russia. Ukraine wasn’t even a country, EVER, until 1917. It remained independent for just 4 years then, losing to the Bolsheviks. Even then, there were actually multiple countries there: Komancza Republic, Hutsul Republic, WUPR/WUNR in Eastern Galicia, the UPR (capital in Kyiv) and the communist UKSSR (capital in Kharkiv). The united Ukraine was only created in 1991 and made up of carious regions that traditionally weren’t even Ukrainian, with regions that were Ukrainian, but Russian-speaking and with the Russian church, regions with mostly Hungarian speakers (Catholic), regions with Romanian speakers (Catholic), regions with Polish speakers (Catholic) and regions with Greeks (Greek Orthodox). I know Ukraine’s history because I studied it, at large, due to half of my family being from Ukraine. Aggrieved or not, the still, FACTUALLY, have a common history, and even language, as the Old Russian was almost identical to Ukrainian and Belorussian.

Agree To me this should put an end to EU support to UKR now

​@@ThomasKundera I'd say, make it conditional on further negotiations. As a Hungarian, this is a point of contention and makes Ukrainians look incompatible with EU norms. I support Ukraine otherwise because 1. Russians are more backward mentality-wise, 2. there should be no precedent made of accepting land-grabbing aggression.

@@ThomasKundera Related to Milan Kundera? XD

Yeah, that will never happen, unfortunately.

Are you not concerned about the millions of Ukrainians in Russia and Crimea being denied their right to speak Ukrainian as well was the 100s of other ethnicities denied their rights? BTW Ukraine's language laws fully comply with the European charter on languages.

Russian will the language spoken at what is now ukraine.

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It should be a transition that's fast enough for young generations to be proficient, but helpful and caring enough to help the elderly that have a harder time learning new things. One day Ukraine will have a nearly 100% proficient in Ukrainian population! It's a bright future for a country that has been attempted to be erased by her enemies countless times.

So what? He just don't want to learn language of aggressor anymore. Is it that hard to understand for you?

@@stardust5548 he already knows it, he is russian, and they are in the middle of situation where unofficial slogan of their current government is "hang the russian", that is why eastern ukrainian population rebelled against regime . lovely how people in the west see it and think to themseves, "yup, approve 100%" na/i enthusiasts, all of you)

@@seagreenmoon13 if you speak Russian it doesn't mean you are Russian, I'm a Ukrainain who (unfortunately) does not speak ukaisnin and speaks Russian because of the part of ukraine that I am from. Can I ask, are Australians who speak English, and they English, or people from parts of North West Africa french? No,thry were justcolinised and the language was brought to them, you can say the same about Spain and Portugal in South America, I'm a Ukrainain who speaks Russian, but I am not Russian and stand for ukraine.

@@danikz9731 you choose to belive that, you have no other choice. Ukraine was "free" for 30 years. "I'm from that part", from what part? From same place where people were fighting against regular Ukranian army for 10 years before Russia sent help? I doubt that. You let sellouts from your government decide what is your ethnicity, what is your culture, people on the east of Ukraine know who they are.

@@danikz9731 set free that poor owl you are trying to stretch to fit over fkn globe :/ Ukrainian language was there all that time. Comparing your history to western colonization is beyond the pale, Ukrainians are second in numbers population of majority subjects of Russian Federation, Ukranian culture was elevated over many others in times of Soviet Union, Ukrainian leader of Soviet Union gifted you Crimea. And your government is trying in vain to fit your history in narrow "good western guys are welcoming poor suffering mono-ethnic state into true democracy" narrative.

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Russ, very close, it's Pysanky. One is a Pysanka. It comes from the Ukrainian word for "to inscribe," btw. I'm surrounded by Natives of many tribes in my life, from across the continent, and half my ancestry is Algonquian. The first thing Natives did on Feb 25th was to start posting pictures of what we call kokum scarves, but are of Ukrainian (and Slavic) origin, the flowered scarves that Ukrainian people traded with us that they call khustkas, or hustkas & you may have heard called babushka scarves, the floral and geometric beadwork designs they taught us when trading seed beads, in the knowledge that none of the Eastern European people who came to trade ever massacred, stole land or did anything but sing with us, laugh, share craft ideas, and that many of the traditional beliefs and values are exactly the same or very similar. They traded and travelled, they didn't colonize. They'd been colonized. They understood. We had made floral and geometric designs too, in moosehair embroidery or quillwork, paint or stain, or appliqued drilled shell beads, weaving, etc. They taught us how to do it in their materials & all were amazed at the similarity of designs, so this in common plus a love of singing and dancing in the evening, storytelling, and cultural beliefs in harmony with each other's, our ancestors made fast friends. Since 2008 younger Natives have been avidly wearing the floral scarves. We pay attention to who is invading whom, all over the world, and google geological info to see what mining opportunities the invader is not admitting to while they blame the invaded country with some propaganda spin excuse. (Uranium, titanium, iron ore, etc in this case & a wish to avoid paying pipeline fees for crossing SE Ukraine in this case, among other reasons like paranoia and a pillaging raiding legacy from the century+ of "Russia's" they stole that name from Kyivan Rús in Peter I 's time & have no Rús roots actually 😉) khanate, as in Golden Horde and following Khan regimes' behaviors still in practice, as we see now plainly, though abominably archaic & barbaric. So we get to chatting with indigenous people in far northern Europe, Murmansk Oblast and Siberia, and the NE corner of the RF, and we look up something they say & the web shows us there's an invasion going on that really isn't on the news.... We're used to that. Only some gets mainstream air. But the tribes in northern Russia can't blast it like in other countries so we check international news. They have to be careful what they say, & we do, back. I just thought I'd point out the solidarity. Irish sent reservations food money and tribes sent Ireland food money during the famine, too. Irish & Eastern European immigrants like Ukrainians and Romanians rioted over massacres here & refused to shut up, sought office, became journalists, effected an end to it and many Slavs joined them & so did some Russians, then lots of other folks learned truth and joined in. Not all immigrants are colonizers. A colonizer is a greedy oppressive land grabber &/or outright genocider. It does not mean non-Native. It means wasicu, takes the fat literally but greedy pillaging murderous bastid being the connotation, in Lakota. 😁 In some areas some rez tribes haven't met many who aren't racist, but colonizer isn't a skin color but an attitude. Good people are "good relatives." Ukraine is a good relative. When we like & trust people we adopt them as cousins, lol, often spelled cuzzins to denote a choice rather than by birth. They're fam.

I had no idea that Russian was taught in any African nation. But it makes sense based on the relationship between the two countries from independence to the breakup of the USSR

@@joythought It was the product of the cold war era.

Exactly, it was till today second language in northeastern Poland together with English , nowadays probably not anymore. But still I concider it more as language of Dostoyevsky than Putin's brainwashed part of society.

Good. Russians don't need Africans going to their country.

@@piecia66 putin has a different opinion about the language

You are just stupid, that's your problem

4 centuries? Tell us, how did Chernenko "try to erase the Ukrainian language and cultural identity?"

@@matthewjohnson1749 Just by not changing the policies applied in the 399 years outside of his very short governing term?

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@@Vatnik_tschistilka how about ukraine is Russia? Ever thought about that?

Yeah lets ban german language as well the language of nazists ..... you are idiot !

Maybe English is the enemy of the world? Look at the British empire.

Sounds like a realistic scenario, if Catalunya really becomes independent

The interviewer asked her questions in russian. Some people answered in russian (woman in pink, woman in white shirt with stripes, woman in white, older man in black, boy in green), some in Ukrainian (girl in a blue vyshyvanka, older woman in pink, girl in blue, woman from Mariupol, man in white shirt, second to las girl, last man). The full interview on YT channel "Настоящее Время. Сюжеты" is more interesting, cause it shows that almost all people who answered in russian say that they've already switched to Ukrainian or are in the process of switching. And explain why it's important to them.

Doesn't matter which. They are the same slavic language with minor differences, comparable to American vs British english.

@@Todsor Say that to russians. They can't understand Ukrainian. Maybe it's time to log off YT and do something else than trolling?

@@iamoo I checked out the channel but the interviews do not have English subtitles. Pity.

@@Todsor bad comparisson. Its more like italian and spanish: same root diferent languages.

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Belarus too, they have such a beautiful language and it's all but died to russification :(

They're not banning it, they've just taken away the special status of the Russian language so that it's no longer a compulsory subject.

I have russian as my native, but I am Ukrainian, and I do not like this paradox, children should not learn russian it's harmful for the country

Almost all of them have it as their native, because russia pushed it for centuries, and they want that to change. The only reason I still think it should be taught at least a bit is to know thy enemy.

Many people in this video are speaking russian..

Only equivalent if France was invading Canada at the time.

Most answers were in Russian, you dummy

bruh if we are neighbors it doesn’t mean we have to know language of every country that borders us

@@shatpro3994 Russian is pretty important though. It's similar enough to Ukranian so that anyone can learn it with relative ease, plus most people from the former Soviet union speak it so a lot of people speak it at an almost native level. Even if you were to eliminate Russia from the equation, what language do you think is going to be useful for communication between a person from Armenia and a person from Ukraine? It's not going to be Armenian or Ukrainian.

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Ukraine was a greater nation than Bulgaria the day it was born. Bulgaria is a retirement place for the English. Any young and prosperous Bulgarian is in (true) Europe. All your buildings are built by either Ancient Romans, Turks, Imperial Russia, Soviet Union, or EU. Don't look down to Ukraine.

The US government just approved another 54 billion for the military defense of Ukraine and 36 billion to NATO there's non-aligned countries in the EU that have done nothing, they enjoy the benefits of the EU without contributing to its own defense the Budapest Memorandum when Ukraine gave up 1,900 nuclear weapons was to solidify Ukraine sovereignty the only thing most Americans need or want in Ukraine is their freedom and sovereignty we don't need anything from them once ratified as an EU member you will see American troops in Ukraine there's at least 30 million slavs in the US and most hate autocratic murderous dictators

I forgot some English phrases, except "Yankee go home!"

@@selflesssamaritan6417 You mean the Yankees that are currenly aggressing and plundering Ukraine, and killing as many civilians as they can ?

Croat?

@@gnas1897 bosniak, however we behave that we speak different languages even though we totally understand each other while communicating The situation in Ukraine and eastern Europe is the same where you would probably need a translator in a conversation between a Russian, belarussians and ukrainian

@@justaregularoldkgbagent4068 yeah I've heard of this before. It's kinda painful to imagine a Serb and Croat nationalist calling eachother "subhuman barbarians" while speaking the same language.

Ukrajinski je ipak dosta drugačiji od ruskog. Otprilike slično kao srpsko-hrvatski i slovenački.

@@radex__ al fora je mogu se međusobno razumjeti

Then explain why German is taught in many countries, bellend!