Ukrainian irredentism

Ukrainian irredentism or Greater Ukraine refers to claims made by some Ukrainian nationalist groups to territory outside of Ukraine which they consider part of the Ukrainian national homeland.

Principalities of Kievan Rus', (1054–1132)
Not to be confused with Great Ukraine.
Map of Ukraine presented by the Ukrainian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, before establishing the Ukrainian SSR.
Map of Ukrainian settlement in Eastern Europe based on a postcard issued in 1919.

Claimed regions
Map shows territories of Ukraine, the unrecognized-state of Novorossiya, and nationalists’ claimed lands.

Since Mikhnovsky the idea of ‘Ukrainian Independent United State’ (Ukrainian: Українська Самостійна Соборна Держава Ukrainska Samostiyna Soborna Derzhava) has been a key nationalist slogan, but many would argue that the ‘unification’ (соборність sobornist’) of Ukrainian lands was partially completed in 1939–45.

Today's would-be Ukraina irredenta is mainly in the east, on the territory that is now part of the Russian Federation:[1]

In the west, some radical nationalists would also cover the following territories:[1]

Ukraine seriously claiming territories of neighbouring states is not considered possible.[1] Foreign claims against Ukrainian territory[1] have been acted on in the Russian Federation's 2014 annexation of Crimea, its covert military support of separatism in the Donbas region, aggressive rhetoric by the Russian government, and ultimately the 2022 invasion.[2] In the case of Russian–Ukrainian conflict, radical Ukrainian nationalists could try to take advantage in the north Caucasus or elsewhere.[1]

See also

References
  1. Wilson, Andrew (1997). Ukrainian nationalism in the 1990s: a minority faith. Cambridge University Press. pp. 181–183.
  2. "Putin's Ukraine rhetoric driven by distorted view of neighbour". The Guardian. 7 December 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
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