The impact of Russian military aggression on the establishment of a new Ukrainian political nation

El impacto de la agresión militar rusa en el establecimiento de una nueva nación política ucraniana

Keywords: Russian military aggression, Ukraine and Russia, sovereignty of the nation, new national identity, resistance

Abstract

The open Russian invasion of Ukraine forced the Ukrainian society to defend its right to a unique and consolidated national identity. The aspiration of Ukrainians to preserve their own identity implied, later, the establishment of a new Ukrainian nation. The aim of the study was to analyze the factors influencing the establishment of the Ukrainian political nation in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The method of comparative analysis was used to identify a high level of legal awareness of the constitutional military duty to defend the Fatherland and preserve the Ukrainian nation. It is concluded that in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict, a new Ukrainian political nation is being established under the influence of ensuring equal rights to culture, language, territory, religion, justice, economy and ethnicity. It was found that Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine forced Ukrainians to unite for the sake of their own preservation as a single Ukrainian political nation. A new Ukrainian political nation, which was established during the Russo-Ukrainian war, is a sovereign community of citizens who have the political subjectivity to put up national resistance to the occupiers.

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Author Biographies

Vasyl Chernets, Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 01135, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Mykola Stadnyk, National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine, 04050, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Olga Marukhovska-Kartunova, University of Economics and Law “KROK”, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Candidate of Philosophical Science, Associate Professor, Head Social Sciences Section, Department of Foreign Languages and General Education Disciplines, University of Economics and Law “KROK”, 03113, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Svitlana Kolybabiuk, Higher Education Institution “Open International University of Human Development “Ukraine” Ivano-Frankivsk Branch, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Law and Humanities, Separate Structural Subdivision of the Higher Education Institution “Open International University of Human Development “Ukraine” Ivano-Frankivsk Branch, 76010, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.

Stepan Svorak, Precarpathian National University named after Vasyl Stefanyk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.

Doctor of Legal Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Рrofessor, Department of Theory and History of State and Law, Educational Scientific Law Institute, Precarpathian National University named after Vasyl Stefanyk, 76018, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.

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Published
2023-07-23
How to Cite
Chernets, V., Stadnyk, M., Marukhovska-Kartunova, O., Kolybabiuk, S., & Svorak, S. (2023). The impact of Russian military aggression on the establishment of a new Ukrainian political nation: El impacto de la agresión militar rusa en el establecimiento de una nueva nación política ucraniana. Political Questions, 41(78), 357-373. https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.4178.25