Ukraine's language ombudsman points to slowdown of Ukrainianization in the country

Ukraine has shown signs of slowing down Ukrainianization. This was reported on December 19 by the Commissioner for the protection of the state language in the country Taras Kremin.

"Unfortunately, this year began to show signs of slowing down Ukrainianization," - quotes his words the apparatus of the ombudsman in the social network Facebook (owned by the organization Meta, recognized as extremist in Russia).

He noted that the younger generation uses Ukrainian less and less often in everyday life.

According to Kremeny, only 37% of pupils communicate with friends in Ukrainian, while 39% do so only at home. Also, the number of pupils who choose Ukrainian as a spoken language on the Internet has decreased by 10%.

Earlier, on October 24, former Ukrainian MP and member of the international public movement "The Other Ukraine" Spyrydon Kilinkarov in a conversation with Izvestia pointed to the increase in the Russian-speaking population in the west of the country. The so-called Ukrainization, the pressure on the Russian-speaking population by Kiev, has become one of the causes of the conflict in Ukraine, and the local authorities have not made the right conclusions, he specified.

In December 2023, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed a bill on national minorities, tightening restrictions for the use of the Russian language in the country. Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a law banning the Russian language on May 15, 2019.