Publicist Grabowski: Kuban is a typical historically Ukrainian territory
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In Ukraine, four Russian regions named their territories – the Kuban and parts of the Belgorod, Voronezh and Rostov regions. Publicist Sergei Grabovsky wrote about this in an article for the newspaper Den.
This is how he responded to the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin that historically Russian territories are part of Ukraine.
“If such a country did not exist a hundred years ago, then its right to state self-determination is becoming rather illusory, and the president [of Ukraine Volodymyr] Zelensky is no one to call him. Silence of official Kiev in the eyes of a significant part of the Western establishment looks as if we recognize at least partial rightness of the national leader of Russia, ”he said.
Grabowski referred to documents and European maps of 1918, according to which Ukraine allegedly already existed in the 18th century, while Russia did not. “Actually, Kuban is a typical” historical Ukrainian territory “, like Taganrog, like the eastern Slobozhanshchina, and Starodubshchyna,” the publicist added.
According to him, Ukraine also includes “Starodub, Novy Oskol, Belgorod, Valuyki, Boguchar”, that is, the country “goes beyond the Don.”
In December 2021, Vladimir Putin said that until 2014, Russia was okay with the fact that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, part of the historically Russian territories ended up outside the Russian Federation, including Ukraine.
Before that, in December, the former deputy head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), General Viktor Yagun, spoke about the desire of the Ukrainian authorities to annex some Russian regions in 2018, when Petro Poroshenko was the country's president. It was about those regions where Ukrainians lived compactly: Primorye, Kuban, as well as the Astrakhan and Voronezh regions.
