A map of divided Ukraine

[dBSPL]

Russian state television displayed a map showing that Ukraine was left to Russia in the east and Poland in the west. It is an excerpt from a program in 2018. At that time, Russia's troops on the border were around 40,000, now it is said to be over 100,000. The tansion was not that high as today and the OSCE observation mission mechanism was at least functional.

Sometimes we need to take a few steps back and take a broader perspective to get a better view.

 

[Iñigo]

Ucrania

Ukraine is a sum of parts created by Lenin in 1922, Stalin in 1945 and Khrushchev in 1954

One part is Poland ...

Galicia (Eastern Europe) - Wikipedia

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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth - Wikipedia

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Another part is Russia, and another part is Ukraine proper, i.e. "the border", "Borderlands", because Ukraine means "the border"

 

[dBSPL]

If we just consider the changes in the last century separately; Königsberg was historic Prussian capital city that is now Kaliningrad.

Do you have the same idea only in Ukraine, or is it universal? When you start break the borders of one of the modern states, it will easily create a domino effect. Africa, Asia, America, even Europe, there are so many examples. It was created by British and French officers in at least 4-5 states in the Middle East(Even the concept of the Middle East is an Anglo-French invention), and even their borders were drawn by them. The people of Ukraine ((They are generally referred to as the Cossacks in our history books and they were the main actors of the 1634 Ottoman-Polish War. Another debate for Ukraine, Rusiskae(aka Kievan Rus) land is the common ancestor of all three Russian-origin states, and so all claim Kievan Rus' as their cultural ancestors. One side's rejection of the other's claim is a different story, but all three countries have such a claim.)) have roots that go back to the historical past at least as much as these elements.