Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to stop teaching the Ukrainian language in schools within occupied Ukraine.

Russia wants to stop Ukrainian children in occupied Ukraine from learning their native language, according to the UK.

In Vladimir Putin’s latest bid to impose Russian culture on his European neighbours, the president plans to remove Ukrainian from school curriculums in the parts of the beleaguered country he is still illegally occupying.

According to the most recent estimates, Russia holds 19% of Ukraine’s sovereign land. That’s roughly the same size of the US state of Ohio.

This education policy is likely to primarily impact Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, but may also affect Crimea, annexed by Russia a decade ago, as well as Luhansk and Donetsk.

The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) explained in its latest update on social media that this is part of a wider long-standing “Russification policy” which aims to........

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