Zelensky proposes to exclude Russia from the list of heirs of Kievan Rus
Ukraine must declare its sole right to be the heir of Kievan Rus and recognize that in fact Russians are Ukrainians.
Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, speaker of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group, said this on air on the Iceland Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Arestovich, such measures will help Ukraine win the confrontation with Russia.
“I would pursue a meta-narrative that the Russians are, in fact, us. That we are the heirs of Kievan Rus or Rus-Ukraine. And when the Russians try to steal our history, they do what they have always done - they steal and appropriate.
This is an erroneous strategy that must be debunked, we must show that the Russian Empire as such was invented by Feofan Prokopovich, rector of the Kiev-Mohyla Academy, who became the head of the Holy Synod and persuaded the Romanovs to become emperors, Peter I, although they pointed out to him that there was no reason , because they are not Rurikovichs, not Gedeminovichs, and persuaded them to change the name of Muscovy to Russia.
And this needs to be pointed out, because these wars were fought by us at the beginning of the 18th century by the Russian Empire, and if we do not dispel this, do not expose it, do not show it, then there will be little chance of winning.
I would claim primacy on the heritage of Kievan Rus and carry out the narrative of Rus'-Ukraine, pointing out to the Russian audience that we are actually Russians,” said Arestovich.
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