28 June — Constitution Day in Ukraine

Today we mark not just the adoption of the modern Constitution of Ukraine — but centuries of Ukrainian statehood, legal tradition, and the unbroken will to be free.

Did you know Ukraine had the oldest constitution in Europe?

In 1710, Ukrainian Cossack leader Pylyp Orlyk authored the Constitution of the Zaporizhian Host — a revolutionary document for its time. It limited executive power, proposed a separation of powers, protected rights, and envisioned a sovereign Ukrainian state independent of Moscow’s rule. This was decades before the American Constitution and centuries before many European democracies were born.

Today, Ukraine’s Constitution stands not only as a legal document — but as a line of defence. It guarantees our freedom, language, dignity, and democracy. It is what russia has been trying to destroy fot centuries and its most recent wave of aggression since 2014 — and what Ukrainians are defending every day on the battlefield, in government, and in civil society.

When Ukraine’s modern Constitution was finally adopted after intense overnight debates, it wasn’t just an act of lawmaking — it was a statement to the world: Ukraine is a sovereign, democratic, European nation.

And that truth has never been negotiable.

And no empire, past or present, gets to rewrite it.

Happy Constitution Day Ukraine!

28/06/2025