Ukrainian language is older than Latin, what kind of Novorossiya can we talk about! – “Freedom” (VIDEO)
Kyiv, April 17 (Navigator, Vladimir Raichenko) – Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada continue to discuss the statement of Russian President Putin, who called the south-eastern regions of Ukraine Novorossiya. According to the Svoboda people's deputy, professor at the Department of History of Law and State at Kyiv State University. Shevchenko Alexandra Shevchenko, there can be no talk of any Novorossiya, since this name is artificial, and “an ancient nation - Ukrainians” have long lived on these lands.
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“In the 16th century, 900 thousand Ukrainians lived in Crimea alone,” the people’s deputy justifies the historical rights to these lands. – The south was also inhabited by Ukrainians. And in general, since ancient times, several thousand years ago, the entire population here was Ukrainian. Only the Greeks called that population Scythians.”
The professor also said that “the Ukrainian language is one of the oldest in the world and is the basis of Latin.” Among other things, Alexander Shevchenko predicts that soon Russia, “carried away by the fight against the fraternal people,” will itself begin to collapse, and “only scraps will remain of this country.”
Ukrainian is older than Latin, so what kind of Novorossiya are we talking about! – Svoboda (VIDEO)