In Crimea, they called it artificial and called for the abolition of the term "Ukrainians"

The term "Ukrainians", used after the emergence of the Ukrainian nation, is artificial and it is time to abolish it. This was announced on June 16 by Chairman of the State Council of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov.

The Head of Parliament recalled that the name of the state "Ukraine" originated in the 16th century and was formed from the word "outskirts". At the same time, during the period of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the inhabitants of this territory were called Russians, she added."Газета.Ru ".

"Ukrainians are an artificial name. It came once, with someone, and it can also leave <...>. I think it's time to cancel it," the politician wrote on the Telegram channel.

According to Konstantinov, followers of the ideas of the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN, the organization is banned in the Russian Federation) Stepan Bandera, who called themselves Ukrainians, need to find another name. He added that in official reports, the ruling "remnants of Ukraine" are officially called Nazis.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on June 23 that the Kiev regime can only be described as neo-Nazi, there has been nothing like it since the Second World War. As the head of state noted, the Kiev authorities glorify the Nazis and justify their crimes at the state level.

Marianne Schreiber, a candidate for mayor of Krakow, Poland, threw a portrait of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in the image of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler into a trash can on July 13. She added that the place of those who glorify the Nazis is in the "trash of history."