7.08.2024 – Translated from Ukrainian via Google and OFP
For the last two days, border fighting has been going on in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, including near the city of Sudzha. Ukrainians following the events began looking for information about this settlement and found out that Sudzha has a historical connection with Ukraine.
In particular, for a certain time this city was the capital of Soviet Ukraine (USSR). OBOZ.UA has collected information about Sudzha’s Ukrainian past.
Is Sudzha a Ukrainian city?
Let’s start with the fact that Sudzha is a city in the south of Kursk region on the Sudzha River, the administrative center of the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation. Historically, it belongs to the Eastern Slobozhanshchina and belongs to the Ukrainian ethnic territory.
It should also be noted that Sudzha was part of the Sumy Regiment (an administrative-territorial and military unit of Sloboda Ukraine – Ed.) and was one of its hundred-strong towns.
In 1732, the regiment consisted of 20 hundreds: two Belopolsky, Bishkinskaya, Vorozhbyanskaya, Krasnopolsky, Nedrigailovskaya, Novomiska, Nizhnesyrovatskaya, Verkhnesyrovatskaya, Sumskaya, two Sudzhansky , Olshanskaya, Perekopskaya, Rybnitskaya, Stetskovskaya and others.
According to the 1897 census, 60% of the city’s population considered Ukrainian their native language, and 37% – Russian.
Capital of the Ukrainian SSR
In 1926, Ukrainians made up 61.2% of the total population in the Sudzhanskaya volost, and 30.8% in Sudzha itself.
From an analysis of the minutes of the Provisional Workers’ and Peasants’ Government of Ukraine, it became known that Sudzha was, in fact, the capital of Soviet Ukraine for almost a month – from November 29 to December 27, 1918.
After this, from the end of December to the beginning of January 1919, the capital moved to Belgorod, and only then the Bolsheviks occupied Kharkov and moved there.
Reaction to the events surrounding Suji
The battles that are taking place in the Kursk region are being actively discussed online. Information has surfaced several times in Russian public groups that the city of Sudzha is allegedly no longer controlled by Russian troops, but there is no confirmed information on this matter.
Meanwhile, Ukrposhta CEO Igor Smilyansky joked that the company plans to open a branch in Sudzha at 12 Sovetskaya Street on the site of the former Russian Post branch.
As reported by OBOZ.UA, against the backdrop of the operation of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in the territory of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, the Russians were afraid that the Ukrainian Armed Forces could seize the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Kurchatov. The nuclear power plant is located approximately 60 km from the nearest point on the Ukrainian-Russian border.
And the city of Sudzha, which appears to be the main direction of the offensive at this stage, is located less than 10 km from the state border.
Sudzha, like many other cities, towns, and villages, were stolen by the cockroaches, who simply steal everything. Ukraine should keep every square foot of land they’ve conquered.
According to Russia’s precedent, any Russian border territory where Ukrainian was or is the dominant or even significant minority spoken language can be occupied and assimilated into Ukraine. Ukraine may cede some territory in Kursk and Belgorod Oblasts when every last Russian has GTFO’ed the hell outta Ukrainian sovereign territory as agreed by the Budapest Memorandum as signed by Russia later violated by Putin. Territories that choose to become part of Ukraine rather than returning to Russian rule can have an internationally monitored election to decide the issue.