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Good afternoon, /chug/anons

I am in a class with a Ukrainian teacher, and she is saying that borscht is originally from Ukraine. Is this true, is there actually a fight between Russian and Ukrainian people for "claiming it as their own"?

Also, why does the Russian Foreign Ministry care about this?

> “Borscht is xenophobia, Nazism and extremism in all its forms,” said Maria Zakharova, a representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during a briefing in Moscow on 7 April. According to her, Ukraine does not want to share the dish: “Because it’s not possible to share borscht. Well, you can't [because it’s a soup]. It’s supposed to belong to only one person. To one people, one nation.”

https://genevasolutions.news/ukraine-stories/when-a-beetroot-soup-creates-geopolitical-tensions

Spasiba, it kinda reminds me of the flamewar in the Middle East over who invented hummus