The Russian-Ukrainian war has been given a new name

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a law stating that the Russian-Ukrainian war that began in 2014 will be called the War for Independence of Ukraine.

This was reported on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada.

On August 21, the People’s Deputies supported the Law of Ukraine “On the Principles of the State Policy of the National Memory of the Ukrainian People” with 273 votes “in favor”, and on Friday, August 29, the President signed it.

“The War for Independence of Ukraine is the struggle for the independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine against the aggression of the Russian Federation, which began on February 19, 2014,” the law states.

The document emphasizes that the war is a consequence of the Russian Federation’s imperial policy aimed at denying and destroying Ukrainian statehood and the identity of the Ukrainian people.

In addition, the law introduces a number of terms into the legal field, including “state policy of national memory of the Ukrainian people”, “historical anti-Ukrainian propaganda”, “crimes against the Ukrainian people”, “place of memory of the Ukrainian people”, and also establishes the definition of the term “racism”.

At the same time, the document provides for the preservation and protection of national memory, the state language, and cultural heritage — components of national security. And the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance is given the status of a central body of executive power.

Recall that in February 2018, the law on the reintegration of Donbas came into force, which changed the format of the anti-terrorist operation to the Joint Forces Operation .

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