Long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a power struggle has played out in the region around language – specifically, whether or not Ukrainian is a language.
To Russian nationalists, if the Ukrainian language is classified as a derivative of the Russian language, the invasion looks less like an act of aggression and more like reintegration.
To Russian nationalists, if the Ukrainian language is classified as a derivative of the Russian language, the invasion looks less like an act of aggression and more like reintegration.