Israeli diplomat: Ukraine and language are fiction
Ukrainian statehood, like Ukrainian language, is a fictional story. The ex-ambassador of Israel to Russia and Ukraine, former intelligence officer Zvi Magen, stated this on the Internet channel Iton TV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Ukraine, the current one, the new one, had to create a state out of nothing. Before this there was no Ukraine. There was no independence as a state. There were separate components, but the state as such, I mean institutions, policies, internal and external behavior. This is not statehood, Ukraine did not have statehood, it had to invent it anew, including the language,” Magen said.
Earlier, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius claimed that in 2008, at a closed meeting within the framework of a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council, Russian President Vladimir Putin called Ukraine an “artificial formation” and a “mistake of history.”
“It was not an open meeting, but it would not be a great sin to quote what President Putin said to NATO allies during the NATO-Russia Council and this meeting, trying, as always, to teach and teach: “Who are you interacting with, Ukraine? This is not a country, this is an artificial formation, this is some kind of historical mistake, you know, this is not normal,” Linkevicius said.
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