Ukraine: The cuckoo country

By Alexei Albu, Odessa Regional Council member 

Our state cannot provide its citizens with the most basic necessities — jobs and decent pay. All vulnerable groups suffer from delays, and sometimes complete cessation of payment of benefits and pensions. Colossal inflation “eats up” honestly-earned money. People are unable to provide for their families. In addition, Ukraine has arranged a social genocide of the people of Donbass, refusing to pay pensions. 

Any normal state should take care of its citizens. But Ukraine is not among them. 

We see how Poland helps ethnic Poles repatriated to their homeland, helps visitors adapt and integrate into Polish society. We see what assistance Russia has given to the people of Donbass — actually saving people from starvation and death from cold. Thanks to humanitarian aid, many people were able to survive this winter. Especially pensioners. 

Thousands of Ukrainians have purchased homes and moved to Russia thanks to the “Resettlement of Compatriots” program, which gets the job done. 

But with all this, the Ukrainian government is doing everything to continue the bloodshed. The fourth wave of mobilization has led to a new wave of emigration. And how can people not emigrate, if any dissent can be brutally punished? If the government is digging a grave for the future? If people are sent for slaughter? But worst of all — the Ukrainian military command has imposed barrage detachments [to execute deserters]. As yet this phenomenon is not widespread, but the measure has already been approved. “In order to prevent mass desertion” – they begin to shoot their own. That is, the desertion rate is still huge. The Ukrainian media and press service of the ATO (Anti-Terrorist Operation) are silent about this. But the Ukrainian commanders’ orders speak eloquently.

Hundreds of civilians evacuated from Uglegorsk, Donetsk, after days of shelling by Ukrainian military

Why doesn’t the Ukrainian government want to create, build, and develop, but destroy, steal and kill? Why do thousands of Ukrainians face the choice: either suffer or to leave? Why can’t our country provide for its citizens, who are forced to emigrate to Russia? 

It turns out that Ukraine “pushes out” its citizens, shifting responsibility for their livelihood onto Russia. The country that is not able to give anything to its citizens is now doing everything to ensure that people leave their homes. It is certainly fortunate that the president of the Russian Federation ordered the Federal Migration Service to extend the stay of Ukrainian citizens of military age. Russia has become an island of salvation, not only for hundreds of opposition activists, but also for thousands of refugees and those who do not want to fight. 

Do we need such a Ukraine? No. We need a Ukraine without Nazis, a Ukraine without oligarchs and thieves in power. We must do everything so that this power, transforming Ukraine into a cuckoo country, falls. 

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