A History of Ukraine and the Cultural Heritage Lost to the War
Researchers view Ukraine as a political state and an ethnolinguistic region that expands beyond the country’s political boundaries. 603700 square kilometres is the size of this country, which is larger than any other country in Europe except Russia. One irony of the ongoing attack by Russia on Ukraine is that the two largest countries in Europe have become parties to an unnecessary war, not to mention the cost of innocent human lives. 750800 is the area of Europe where Ukrainians live, and this territory extends outside the country of Ukraine. Ukrainian communities live in Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Moldova, and Russia. Geographically, most of this ethnolinguistic group of people live either in the plains of rivers or sea coasts. Paul Robert Magocsi, in his book, ‘A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its People’, quotes a geographer from Ukraine, Stepan Rudnytskyi, saying, “Nine-tenths of Ukrainians have certainly never seen a mountain and do not even know what one looks like.” ...