![Russia’s genocidal invasion of Ukraine was meant to extinguish Ukrainian statehood and eradicate Ukrainian identity. Instead, it is turbocharging the de-Russification of the country. In the six months since the invasion began, Ukrainian support for de-Russification has become a truly nationwide phenomenon, reaching record highs far in excess of the significantly more modest public backing for de-Communization policies following the country’s 2014 Euromaidan Revolution. This wartime trend is rapidly reversing centuries of Russification and directly undermining Vladimir Putin’s dreams of a new Russian Empire. Russia’s self-defeating invasion: Why Vladimir Putin has lost Ukraine forever | INFBusiness.com](https://globalpolitics.info/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/c1d454e83e6fb09809e766ca225c4d16.jpg)
Russia’s self-defeating invasion: Why Vladimir Putin has lost Ukraine forever
Russia’s genocidal invasion of Ukraine was meant to extinguish Ukrainian statehood and eradicate Ukrainian identity. Instead, it is turbocharging the de-Russification of the country. In the six months since the…