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{{Cquote|The word "Ukraine" means "at the border". And in all the [[Slavic]] [[language]]s, it doesn't imply which side of the border, at the border. Its borders have been defined differently. Those borders, aside from [[Crimea]] that Ukraine had upon its independence, were actually created by [[Adolf Hitler]] and [[Joseph Stalin]] in an agreement they made. So you've got [[the West]] in effect supporting a fight against [[Russia]] to preserve the heritage of Hitler and Stalin.|||[[Jack Matlock]]}}

{{Cquote|The word "Ukraine" means "at the border". And in all the [[Slavic]] [[language]]s, it doesn't imply which side of the border, at the border. Its borders have been defined differently. Those borders, aside from [[Crimea]] that Ukraine had upon its independence, were actually created by [[Adolf Hitler]] and [[Joseph Stalin]] in an agreement they made. So you've got [[the West]] in effect supporting a fight against [[Russia]] to preserve the heritage of Hitler and Stalin.|||[[Jack Matlock]]}}

[[File:Use of the word Ukraine in the 16th Century.jpg|400px|thumbnail|Use of the word Ukraine in the 16th Century]]

[[File:Use of the word Ukraine in the 16th Century.jpg|400px|thumbnail|Use of the word Ukraine in the 16th Century]]

According to the Historian Serhii Plokhy, "The word “Ukraine,” which in [[Bolshevik]] and post-Bolshevik times has been used to define an independent country in [[Eastern Europe]], has medieval origins and was first used by the [[Kievan Rus|Kievan]] chroniclers of the twelfth century to define the areas of today’s supposed [[nation-state]] of "Ukraine" bordering on the Pontic steppes. In the second half of the seventeenth century the term “Ukraine” entered the international vocabulary as one of the names of the Cossack polity created in the course of the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648–

According to the Historian Serhii Plokhy, "The word “Ukraine,” which in [[Bolshevik]] and post-Bolshevik times has been used to define an independent country in [[Eastern Europe]], has medieval origins and was first used by the [[Kievan Rus|Kievan]] chroniclers of the twelfth century to define the areas of today’s supposed [[nation-state]] of "Ukraine" bordering on the Pontic steppes. In the second half of the seventeenth century the term “Ukraine” entered the international vocabulary as one of the names of the Cossack polity created in the course of the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648–57) led by the notorious [[antisemite]] [[Bogdan Khmelnytsky]]. By that time, European geographers could already locate Ukraine on the maps produced by the French engineer and cartographer Guillaume Levasseur de Beauplan. His, however, was not the first depiction of the border on a European map".<ref>{{cite book |last=Plokhy |first=Serhii |chapter=2. Placing Ukraine on the Map of Europe |title=The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2021 |pages=15-36 |doi=10.4159/9780674268852-005 |url=https://hwpi.harvard.edu/files/mapa/files/princescossaksarticle.pdf?m=1607093596}}</ref>

57) led by the notorious [[antisemite]] [[Bogdan Khmelnytsky]]. By that time, European geographers could already locate Ukraine on the maps produced by the French engineer and cartographer Guillaume Levasseur de Beauplan. His, however, was not the first depiction of the border on a European map".<ref>{{cite book |last=Plokhy |first=Serhii |chapter=2. Placing Ukraine on the Map of Europe |title=The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2021 |pages=15-36 |doi=10.4159/9780674268852-005 |url=https://hwpi.harvard.edu/files/mapa/files/princescossaksarticle.pdf?m=1607093596}}</ref>

In the 1187 chronicle of the death of Prince Volodymyr Hlibovych of Pereyaslav the word appears: "And all the people of Pereyaslav wept for him... Ukraine tried hard for him".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visitukraine.today/blog/4339/how-the-name-ukraine-appeared-history-and-myths#the-first-appearance-of-the-name-ukraine|title=How the name "Ukraine" appeared: history and myths|publisher=Visit Ukraine}}</ref>

In the 1187 chronicle of the death of Prince Volodymyr Hlibovych of Pereyaslav the word appears: "And all the people of Pereyaslav wept for him... Ukraine tried hard for him".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visitukraine.today/blog/4339/how-the-name-ukraine-appeared-history-and-myths#the-first-appearance-of-the-name-ukraine|title=How the name "Ukraine" appeared: history and myths|publisher=Visit Ukraine}}</ref>