DISINFO: Ukraine can soon collapse and lose East and South of the country granted by Lenin in 1918
SUMMARY
Odesa is historically Novorossia. Kharkiv and Donbas are the territories of the Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Republic, which grandfather Lenin attached to Ukraine in 1918. These seams, which were used to patch Ukraine together into a “Great Ukraine,” can both sew together and tear apart. Therefore, they are natural dividing lines.
RESPONSE
Pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Ukraine's imminent collapse designed to denigrate the history of Ukraine, Ukrainian statehood and its independence.
Ukraine is a sovereign and independent state with a democratically-elected president and parliament. Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are respected by most of the free world, confirmed by the resolutions of the United Nations, but violated by Russia.
The history of Ukraine dates back to the era of the Kyivan Rus’ in the 9th-13th centuries. A fully independent Ukraine only emerged in the 20th century, after long periods of successive domination by Poland-Lithuania, Russia, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). In 1917-1920, a Ukraine Peoples' Republic was established embracing the East and South of today's Ukraine. Under Lenin's leadership at the beginning of the 20th century, Ukraine was occupied by the Bolsheviks and for decades was under communist control.
When the Soviet Union began to unravel in 1990–91, the legislature of the Ukrainian S.S.R. declared sovereignty (16 July 1990) and then outright independence (24 August 1991). With the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. in December 1991, Ukraine gained full independence.
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