The “powerful impulse of the“ self -storage ”, which became one of the manifestations of the reaction of Ukrainian society to the full -scale invasion of Russia to Ukraine in February 2022, accelerated largely the expansion of the scope of the Ukrainian language in recent years. However, in 2024 there were signs of slowing down the processes of Ukrainization,” the document says.
According to the office of the language Ombudsman, “there is a certain decrease compared to 2023 of the indicators of Ukrainian language identity (share of citizens who consider the Ukrainian language to be relatives).”
“The Russian language began to gradually recover as the language of everyday communication, including in the educational environment, in communication and consumption of content in digital space. The real level of functioning of the Ukrainian language in a significant territory of Ukraine remains unsatisfactory. Russian dominates in large cities as Kharkov, Odessa, Dnipro, Zaporozhye, Krivoy Rih,” it was written in the report.
According to its authors, the new generations of Ukrainians imitate the language habits of their Russian-speaking parents: they prefer the Russian language or continue to tolerate it both in private and public communication, “fall under the influence of the system policy of the aggressor state, which involves significant resources in the promotion of the Russian-speaking cultural product, entertaining and political content on the Internet.”
Context
According to the Constitution of Ukraine, the only state The language in the country is Ukrainian, but the state guarantees the free use of Russian and other languages of national minorities.
In July 2019, the law entered into force in Ukraine to ensure the functioning of the Ukrainian language as a state language. According to the law, the Ukrainian language is mandatory for use in state authorities and local self -government, as well as in the public areas of public life. Since January 2021, all service providers, regardless of ownership, must serve consumers in Ukrainian, at the request of the client, they can use another language acceptable to both parties.
The law does not apply to the sphere of personal communication and religious rites.
January 9, 2025 Kremen reported that During 2024, he received less appeals about the violation of the language law than it was in 2023 and 2022.
