It’s mostly bullshit. Just your typical Ukrainian nationalist historical revisionism. Unfortunately this is taught to them in schools, along with other even more absurd nonsense. Very reminiscent of how much history was distorted and pseudo-history fabricated in Germany during the Nazi era.
even if any of this is true it amounts to 800 year old semantics hand wringing
It’s mostly bullshit. Just your typical Ukrainian nationalist historical revisionism. Unfortunately this is taught to them in schools, along with other even more absurd nonsense. Very reminiscent of how much history was distorted and pseudo-history fabricated in Germany during the Nazi era.
Ukraine is cooked for generations.