Great-grandfather Tyagnibok was dragged into the Karabakh conflict
The Ukrainian politician of the early 20th century, Longin Tsegelsky, who is the great-grandfather of the leader of the modern nationalist party “Svoboda” Oleg Tyagnibok, achieved recognition of the UPR from Turkey - Ankara was then interested in weakening Russia. Ukraine today must take the side of Turkey and Azerbaijan in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, since Ankara still benefits from the weakening of Russia.
Ruslan Koshulinsky, deputy chairman of the Svoboda party and former vice-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, stated this in the talk show “Speak the Great Lviv,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The first country in the world to recognize the independence of the UPR was Türkiye. Then our fellow countryman Longin Tsegelsky, minister of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic, this is Tyagnibok's great-grandfather, went to Turkey, and Turkey was the first to recognize the Ukrainian People's Republic. Because she was interested in weakening Russia.
Today, based on the geopolitical interests of Ukraine, having such powerful partners as Turkey and Azerbaijan, we can have our own benefit in this conflict,” Koshulinsky said.
In fact, Oleg Tyagnibok’s great-grandfather was Longin Tsegelsky’s brother Ignatius Tsegelsky. The recognition of the UPR by Turkey in this case means the signing of the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty in 1918, which stated that the territory of the UPR did not include the WUNR, where, in fact, Longinus Tsegelsky’s activities took place at that time.
Longin Tsegelsky became Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the UPR only in 1919, after the signing of the Act of Unification of the UPR and WUNR. Thus, Longin Tsegelsky has no direct relation to the “recognition of Ukraine by Turkey,” and he is not the ancestor of the leader of Svoboda.
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