The question is sometimes asked: How do we overcome the self-perception of Ukraine as anti-Russian? How do we avoid being perceived as a mere negation of Russia? After all, we are not the negation of something else. Especially not Russia. We are ourselves .

And I have this answer to that: Ukraine is not "anti-Russia". It is Russia that is anti-Ukraine. Russia is a negation, a negative, a minus. And that is why this war is so important for it. It will survive only when it can deny us, that is, destroy us .

Ukraine is a product of this land. Different things have happened on it, but there are several things that are the leitmotif of them:

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