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2 Feb 2026
Hromadske Radio
Does Ukraine have a national idea during the war?
“Deportation can apply not only to people, but also to identity. When Russia effectively took away from us the notion of ‘Rus’ and appropriated it for itself, this is a deportation of identity. To take away your identity and then say: ‘But in fact, it is mine, and you are only a function of me,’” Volodymyr Yermolenko, Director of Analytics at Internews Ukraine and Chief Editor at UkraineWorld.org, analyses how Ukrainian identity has changed recently and whether a national idea has been formed.