Kyiv, February 13 (PolitNavigator, Vladimir Mikhailov) - Ukraine has always been at war with Russia, Mazepa defeated Peter the Great “spiritually”, and today the “era of Mazepa” has come in Ukraine, says former Ukrainian Ambassador Dmitry Pavlychko.
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“We have been at war with Russia, of course, for not a hundred years. It comes from Ivan the Terrible, when he sent 80 Russian cavalry to Volyn. There was no Russia then, there was Moscow. So, near Orsk, Konstantin Ostrozhsky, having a smaller number of soldiers, defeated this Russian cavalry, and 500 years have passed. Therefore, we need to remember this too.
How to remember the war that Peter the Great waged against Mazepa, it was also a war that ended in Mazepa’s victory, spiritually. It must be said openly that today we are actually in the era of Mazepa,” says the Ukrainian diplomat.
In his opinion, there has never been a real unification of Ukraine with Russia. “We need to remember this, our propaganda thought, our historical mind,” says Dmitry Pavlychko.