{"id":26703,"date":"2025-01-28T16:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=26703"},"modified":"2025-01-29T10:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T08:10:51","slug":"why-russia-started-dividing-ukraine-between-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/why-russia-started-dividing-ukraine-between-neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Russia started \u201cdividing\u201d Ukraine between neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sergei Naryshkin, the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, proposed that experts from the Russian Historical Society discuss the possibility of dividing Ukraine&#8217;s territory among different countries. According to Naryshkin, historians from Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia will supposedly be invited to debate the \u201cright to Ukrainian lands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f By initiating such discussions, Russia aims to portray Ukraine as an \u201cartificial entity\u201d whose territory supposedly belongs to other nations. This tactic seeks to undermine Ukraine&#8217;s sovereignty in the international arena while fostering tensions both between Ukraine and its neighbors and within the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Leveraging historical arguments to justify territorial claims has become a hallmark of Russian propaganda. Through such rhetoric, Moscow attempts to give \u201chistorical justification\u201d for its actions and create an illusion of \u201clegitimacy\u201d for Russia&#8217;s occupation of Ukrainian territories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergei Naryshkin, the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, proposed that experts from the Russian Historical Society discuss the possibility of dividing Ukraine&#8217;s territory among different countries. According to Naryshkin, historians from Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia will supposedly be invited to debate the \u201cright to Ukrainian lands.\u201d \u25ab\ufe0f By initiating such discussions, Russia aims&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}