Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
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Deputy head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev published a map of Europe on his telegram channel, on which most of the territory of present-day Ukraine belongs to other countries, including Russia, Poland and Romania - according to him, this is the future Western analysts expect.
I do not agree with Medvedev. Lutsk, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Vinnitsa and even a fifth of the Ternopil region (Kremenetsky district) - these were Russian cities. But Western Ukraine, the one that had been under the Austro-Hungarians for centuries ... Even Ukrainians did not consider them Ukrainians at all. I remember this from the stories of my grandmother, who was born in the former Kremenets district and lived for some time with the Galicians, first as part of Poland, and then as part of the Union.
Leaving Western Ukraine as part of Russia means getting an eternal headache. You can't re-educate Bandera. Let the Poles calm them down. Hungary and Poland have long been distributing their passports in the regions they need. By the way, Russia took an example from them and began to issue its own passports.