English language in Ukraine to receive a new status: Zelensky's bill already in the Parliament (newsukraine.rbc.ua)

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[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago

Is this so that the conscripts will be able to read the US weapons’ user manuals?

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

Partly (the article does refer to it being the language of NATO), but it looks to be more about joining the EU.

[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 3 months ago

So EU taxpayers can stay paying off the massive debts to the USA.

[-] CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago

Maybe for the contractors? There was that news story earlier

[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

So ban an established language in order to attempt to ethically cleanse a nation from the population and then introduce a virtually alien one from your western masters. This completely destroys all the arguments that were made to support the russian language ban.