We have not killed a single Russian

We have not taken a single inch of their land,

Our troops have never entered into their territory, their resources are not captured .

We’re have just become a free country for one week.

And that was enough for Russia to declare war on us by unanimous decision their parliament and under total support of the population!

Why do they hate us so much?

For being free? For being dissidents?

What have we done to be awarded with such a fierce nation-wide hatred that justified the war in the eyes of the Russians?

Evgeny Bessonov
Kharkov

Millions of Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine are asking these questions today.

We, Russian-speaking population of Ukraine, those whom without our consent Mr. Putin decided to defend from our brothers, people living in the West of our country (those his Goebbels-style propaganda calls “benderovets & fascists”), we do not have answers to these questions.

We may have different views on many things, including political, language and religious issues, but we prefer to solve them internally in our traditional peaceful Ukrainian way. We have followed this peaceful way for years in our history until recently, when 89 people became victims of bloody dictator Ynaukovych, who escaped and found asylum with Mr. Putin.

We do not want bloodshed any more. We do not want to repeat Syria or Yugoslavia here. We say “No” to military troops of foreign country, “No” to any para-military gorillas, “No” to any violence or new victims.

We want to start building a new peaceful, fair, and corruption-free state, the kind of work that cannot be done with Russian soldiers’ help.