Anastasiia Hatsenko 🇺🇦 Profile picture
Head of @PaneuropaKyiv 🇺🇦 Euro-Atlantic cooperation and Information security Expert at @ADASTRA_UA Think Tank #Feminist International Relations
Jun 10, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
During the three weeks of my stay in #Vienna, I heard several times the questions: "#Ukrainian and Russian languages are quite similar, aren't they?" and "Ukrainian and Russian are like different versions of German in Austria and Germany?". So, let me explain👇🏻 First of all, Ukrainian and Russian are different languages and by no means one language. Ukrainian is not a dialect of Russian. #Moscow has always tried to pretend that the Ukrainian and Russian languages are similar. The truth is that Russians do not even understand Ukrainian