title: "Without you": distancing from the "Russian world" in statements by Ukrainian high-ranking officials
abstract: The “Russian world” conceptualised as a notion of civilizational unity grounded in linguistic, historical, ethnocultural, and religious components, has been the subject of various interdisciplinary studies. This paper aims to investigate linguistic strategies for delineating the distinctions between the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, as well as for showcasing a divergence from the “Russian world” ideology and its principal components, such as the Russian language and culture, the Russian Orthodo