Sustainment and Development of Ukrainian Statehood in Conditions of War and Peace

Transcript of scientific report at the meeting of the Presidium of NAS of Ukraine, August 23, 2023

Abstract

The report states that the adoption by the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR of the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of Ukraine, on July 16, 1990 and of the Act of Proclamation of Ukraine’s Independence, on August 24, 1991, was the culmination of the centuries-old history of Ukraine’s state formation. The history of Ukraine is, in fact, the history of the national liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people for their state. This struggle was aimed at liberating the Ukrainian people from foreign rule and gaining national state independence. Russia’s open and full-scale armed aggression, blatant anti-Ukrainian rhetoric and denial of Ukraine’s right to be a sovereign state became a real threat to Ukrainian statehood and actualized a number of problems regarding its sustainment not only during the war, but also after its end.