Zelenskyy signs decree acknowledging Russian territories historically populated by Ukrainians

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : 22 January is the day of the proclamation of the Act of Unification of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Western Ukrainian People's Republic in 1919.
50% : It orders the dissemination of materials on "the over-the-thousand-year history of Ukrainian state-building" and the "historical ties of lands inhabited by ethnic Ukrainians to Ukrainian national state entities in different historical periods.
41% : According to the president, the government must gather facts and evidence about "crimes committed against Ukrainians living (or having lived) in Russia, about the policy of forced Russification, political repression and deportation of Ukrainians, [and] restoration and preservation of historical memory.

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