In his book The Ukrainians – Unexpected Nation, Professor Andrew Wilson describes several “way-out” theories for the origin of Ukraine.
Many of them draw on biblical texts, like this one which claims that the Ukrainians were descended from Japheth – one of the sons of Noah – whose descendants went on to found the city now known as Kyiv.
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