While Ukraine Is Fighting
While Ukraine is fighting, US President Donald Trump is “trading”. In this regard, America is no longer perceived as the undisputed leader, and therefore, in the near future, the world should expect a redistribution of the balance of power and the emergence of new military-political alliances and blocs.
Yesterday, more than 500 Russian UAVs and ballistic missiles carried out another massive attack on Ukraine. Once again, people were killed and a number of important life support facilities and civilian infrastructure were destroyed.
This time, Kyiv suffered the most. All this happened almost immediately after US President Donald Trump’s conversation with current leader of the terrorist state of Russia, Vladimir Putin, who now makes no secret of his contempt for Trump and shows by all his actions that he has no intention of taking the latter’s position into consideration.
Besides, Putin has already openly stated that the Russian Federation’s imperial ambitions extend far beyond Ukraine and that after conquering Ukraine, he plans to march on Europe.
Meanwhile, Ukraine continues to fight Russia and has no intention of surrendering.
Ukraine is fighting because it knows very well what the “Russian world” is about and because Ukrainians do not want to find themselves in Russian slavery once again. It is well known to us that wherever a Russian soldier sets foot, there is always rape, murder, and looting. It has always been this way, and today we are once again convinced that today’s Russia is no different from what it was in the past.
After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Russians left behind thousands of dead and wounded and completely destroyed cities and villages in the occupied territories. At the same time, in the western regions of our country, the life of people keeps improving. This positive trend is very evident in the suburbs of Lviv and in the city itself.
Over the past 100 years, Halychyna has been part of Austria-Hungary, Poland, Russia, and the USSR, and the events of those years have not yet faded from people’s memories. Today, we can compare the times of Russian rule with the period when our lands were part of Western civilization. That is why, during World War II, Ukrainians voluntarily volunteered to fight against communist Russia in the ranks of the Wehrmacht and categorically refused to participate in combat operations when the German command wanted to deploy the 14th SS Grenadier Division “Halychyna” on the Western Front.
Today, Ukrainians also know well who their real enemy is, and therefore are ready to fight for their independence and freedom against the Russian occupiers until victory is achieved.
Everyone should know that we are not going to surrender and will defend ourselves and destroy the enemy by all means available to us.
Today, the world, which fears Putin’s nuclear weapons, must remember that in wartime, nuclear facilities can be not only weapons of attack but also potential targets of enemy attacks, as has already happened with the Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plants.
With the escalation of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Russia’s nuclear facilities may also come under attack. Operation “Pavutyna” and “Malyuk’s Drones” are a warning and a vivid demonstration that Ukraine is no longer completely dependent on Western arms supplies. Today, it already has its own forces and means of destruction that can be successfully used deep behind enemy lines to strike its most important military facilities, including nuclear weapons storage sites. Therefore, if the war between Russia and Ukraine does not end in the near future, all talk of “red lines” will be useless, and nuclear terrorism may become the most effective weapon, which in the near future will have serious and unpredictable consequences not only for the conflicting parties, but also for the whole world.
Oleh Bereziuk,
Institute of Global Politics
