MOSKIEWSKA I KIJOWSKA WIZJA INTERPRETACJI SPORÓW O PRZESZŁOŚĆ CIĄGŁOŚCI HISTORYCZNYCH KORZENI WZAJEMNEJ PAŃSTWOWOŚCI

Abstract

Russian Federation’s attack of February 24, 2022 on Ukraine was no coincidence but a strategy to regain the status of superpower. Referring to history was its significant part. Indeed, that is a shared history, at least in the origin, though differently interpreted by both states, independent from 31 years. Based on the promoted from 16th Century vision of Russia as the Byzantine Empire’ successor, Putin’s Russian Federation claims the right to build an empire that would include all lands of the Russian Empire. It does not recognise independent statehood and Ukrainian nationality. The war was started to achieve that goal.