John J. Mearsheimer: The Ukraine Crisis is the West's fault
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I am not sure you can refer to a region that was under Russian control between 1720 (or thereabouts) and 1991 as being 'occupied'.
An occupation is an occupation regardless of length, especially when some of those countries had periods of individual statehood.
There was no such country before. So how can you claim it was 'occupied' between 1720 and 1991?
Incorrect. The oldest recorded mention of the word ukraina dates back to the year 1187. In connection with the death of the Volodymyr Hlibovych, the ruler of Principality of Pereyaslavl which was Kyïv's southern shield against the Wild Fields, the Hypatian Codex says "Oukraina groaned for him", ѡ нем же Оукраина много постона[5]o nem že Oukraina mnogo postona).[6] In the following decades and centuries this term was applied to fortified borderlands of different principalities of Rus' without a specific geographic fixation: Halych-Volhynia, Pskov, Ryazan etc.