The paper seeks to develop new avenues for a study of the Ukrainian press in the West European languages in Europe during the first quarter of the twentieth century. For the first time ever, we employ here the framing perspective for the study of the victimization grand-narrative of Ukrainians in their foreign-language print media in Europe. We examine the victimization of the Ukrainian people in terms of ‘human interest’, ‘conflict’ and ‘morality’ frames in the press discourse of the respective historical periods: colonial (1901–1918), postcolonial (1919–1921), and neo-colonial (1921/1922–1926). We argue that victimization grand-narrative in the press was used purposefully to evoke compassion and empathy from the West European public opinion for the Ukrainian nation as ‘collective’ victim (‘oppressed nation’). Additionally, this research proves that victimization of Ukrainians geared at securing support and solidarity for their nation-state aspirations from the European opinion leaders.

本文旨在为二十世纪上半叶欧洲西欧语言的乌克兰新闻研究开辟新的途径。我们在这里有史以来第一次采用框架视角来研究乌克兰人在欧洲外语印刷媒体上的受害宏大叙事。我们从各个历史时期的新闻话语中的“人类利益”、“冲突”和“道德”框架来审视乌克兰人​​民的受害情况：殖民时期（1901-1918）、后殖民时期（1919-1921）和新殖民时期-殖民时期（1921/1922–1926）。我们认为，媒体上的受害宏大叙事是有目的地用来唤起西欧公众舆论对作为“集体”受害者（“被压迫民族”）的乌克兰民族的同情和同理心。此外，