The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine emphasized that the decision of the russian authorities to ban the study of the Ukrainian language in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine is another manifestation of the genocidal policy.
This was stated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
"We consider the decision of the russian federation authorities to ban the study of the Ukrainian language in schools in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine as another manifestation of Moscow's genocidal policy," the message says.
The statement emphasized that imperial russia, which systematically manipulates the language issue to justify aggression, is pursuing a purposeful policy of russification, assimilation, genocidal extermination of entire peoples, oppression of other cultures, suppression of national identity.
"We remind you that over the centuries Moscovia tried to ban the Ukrainian language a total of more than 130 times. In the end, the authors of these attempts perished along with their decrees, circulars and denunciations, and the Ukrainian language survived all the oppressors. Modern attempts to continue the tsarist repressions and Stalin's linguocide will also go to hell," the Foreign Ministry emphasized.
The ministry also responded to the "russian chauvinists" who decided to once again "ban" the Ukrainian language in the Kherson Region with the words of the writer Mykola Kulish, a native of the Kherson Region: "Every word is convincing when weapons ring behind it!"
"Today, the Ukrainian language is not unarmed. Behind it is the power of the Ukrainian army and weapons. Therefore, all russian "bans" are as fake and temporary as the russian occupation. The occupiers will perish, and Chaplynka of Kulish and the rest of the Kherson, Zaporizhia Regions and our South were and will be Ukraine. And when the russian boot is removed from Ukrainian land, a select and strong Ukrainian word will sound after it," the Foreign Ministry summarized.
Earlier, the russian ministry announced that the russian federation would remove the school course of the Ukrainian language and literature from the federal general education program, linking this to the alleged "change in the geopolitical situation in the world."
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