The rhetoric of the Russian president must not deceive anyone, gets carried away this Ukrainian editorialist. Ukraine has nothing to do with Nazism and if there is genocide, it is Moscow, which violates all the rules of conduct of war, that must be accused. Western democracies are in the process of understanding this, he wants to believe.
Just imagine: Putin launched a full-scale war once morest Ukraine, starting with killing civilians, including children, to… make Ukrainians free. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a meeting with his “colleagues” from the self-proclaimed republics of Luhansk and Donetsk:
Regarding our obligation as an ally, President Putin has taken the decision to carry out a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, so that, once freed from this oppression, Ukrainians can freely decide their future. .”
In other words, by losing their army, the Ukrainians will immediately be able “freely decide their future”… For anyone with a bit of savvy, a question immediately arises: and why can’t Russia set an example, why can’t it proceed with its own complete and definitive demilitarization?
A message for democracies
But let’s take a closer look at one particular point: the term “denazification of Ukraine”, which lately comes up constantly in the statements of Putin and his entourage. As well as their numerous accusations of “genocide of the people of Donbass” allegedly committed by Kiev. These “magic formulas” are not only intended for the
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Serhiy Hrabovskiy
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“Le Jour”, a publication launched in 1996, aims to be the spearhead of the new generation of the Ukrainian press, which is more critical, more modern and more professional. Den Russian version: http://www.day.kiev.ua/rus/
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