The Russian language should generally disappear from the territory of Ukraine as an element of hostile propaganda. In Ukraine, Ukrainian and English should be used.
This opinion was expressed by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov, commenting that Ukraine wants to introduce exams for obtaining Ukrainian citizenship. He reproached the “specialists” who use Russian as their main language of communication on the air. =”bloquote cke-markup”>The Russian language should disappear from our territory altogether as an element of hostile propaganda and brainwashing for our population…,” said Danilov.
The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council noted the inadmissibility of speaking Russian when Ukraine lost tens of thousands of people due to the Russian invasion.
Danilov noted that “it is very dangerous when it comes to the state.” He once again voiced his opinion that Ukrainian and English languages should be mandatory in Ukraine.
“English is mandatory, our native language is mandatory. And planting these Russian narratives here is very dangerous – supposedly we have to get along with them, we have to understand something. Look: we don't need anything from them, let them get away from us , let them retreat to their swamps and croak in their Russian language,” Danilov said.
At the same time, the NSDC secretary does not consider it a pertinent argument that Ukrainians can influence Russians with the help of the Russian language. According to Danilov, only Putin's apologists remained in Russia. He noted that it is not our task to convince them of something.
Danilov also said that at a meeting with President Vladimir Zelensky, a decision was made to switch the state TV channel FreeDom from Russian to English.
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Ukrainians began to communicate more in Ukrainian
- From the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Ukrainians began to switch to the state language. Among those who began to use Ukrainian more often, most of all are residents of large cities.
- In general, 57% of Ukrainians began to communicate more or completely switched to the state language. Another 42% of Ukrainians began to communicate more in Ukrainian.
- Earlier, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy developed a bill providing for a special status for the English language in Ukraine.
