Both Romania and Hungary, which have large ethnic communities in Ukrainian territory, have reacted angrily to a new law governing minorities adopted by the Kyiv parliament on December 13, which largely ratifies legislation from 2017 that limits the amount of education schoolchildren will receive in their mother tongues. To bring them together to form the third-largest ethnic group in Ukraine after Ukrainians and Russians, Bucharest has asked that the Moldovans be considered Romanian, given that Romania considers the creation of the Moldovan language and identity to be a Soviet artifice designed to dilute Romanian identity in territories claimed by Moscow in the 1939 Ribbentrop-Molotov pact signed between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. “We have called on local leaders in Mukachevo district to have the anti-Hungarian measures withdrawn and the status quo ante restored immediately