Ministry of Foreign Affairs tells the world interesting facts about Ukraine in social media

Ahead of Ukraine 24th Independence Day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched a patriotic initiative called “Tell the world about Ukraine.”

Every day from Aug. 4 until Aug. 24, the ministry will post 20 facts about Ukraine and its history.

Every Ukrainian can join the “Tell the world about Ukraine” campaign and spread the information by sharing it on Twitter, Facebook and other social media under the hash tags #TellWorldAboutUA and ‪#‎HYPERLINK 

“It was a collective idea of Ukrainian diplomats from the mission of Ukraine to the European Union. They are trying to make social media the basic informational channel to connect Ukraine with the world, so that everyone could find out about our country,” said Iryna Shum of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “We’ve asked all our embassies from all over the world to translate the facts we publish under the hash tag to the language of the country they work in. And #TellWorldAboutUA becomes very popular.”

The first three facts:

* “In 1994 Ukraine renounced third largest nuclear arsenal in the world. Ukraine is one of the United Nations founding members."

* "Four of the 10 European transport corridors run through its territory."

* Geographical midpoint of Europe is situated in Ukraine near a small town of Rakhiv.”

The organizers hope the hashtage becomes popular.

In July, the hash tag #NoSpecialStatusforDonbas became tops in Ukrainian Twitter after a special election was discussed for the Russian-occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts.

The hash tag #What’s up with khokhly? (#Че там у хохлов?) also became popular among Ukrainian users of Twitter to make fun of Russians who use "khokhly," a derogatory term for Ukrainians.

#EuroMaidan was a popular hashtage in 2014 during the revolution that forced President Viktor Yanukovych from power.