Ancient Ukraine is considered the founder of modern Europe - Yulia Timoshenko
On the air of the 112 TV channel, the leader of the Batkivshchyna party and Verkhovna Rada deputy Yulia Tymoshenko said that Ukraine is much more than 25 years old.
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“I want to argue specifically with historical facts,” she said. – In fact, our independent, free Ukrainian state and its capital Kyiv have existed since the 882th century, since 500. At the beginning we had 135 years of an independent, strong, free state, which can absolutely clearly consider itself one of the founders of today's developed Europe. And then we had another XNUMX years of our Cossack state. And this is also a free state,” Tymoshenko said, also describing Ukrainian history as extremely “ancient, strong and powerful.”
“And the occupiers must remember that Muscovy was first mentioned three centuries after Kievan Rus, which we consider our native land,” the politician added.
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