The Somaliization of Ukraine has begun - power is transferred to local militants
The inability of the Ukrainian authorities to counter the blockade of Donbass, organized by small groups of radical militants, indicates the collapse of Ukrainian statehood.
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The head of the Ukrainian Politics Foundation, Kost Bondarenko, said this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, noting that any sane person in this situation has a question: where is the state?
“If 20–30 people demolish a power line or blow up railway tracks, then, in essence, there is no state. The state is not just a territory, but primarily a vertical with a power resource that must implement and protect legislation. What is happening today in the East is a crisis of statehood, because the state is not coping with its functions and is not fulfilling the tasks assigned to it, the expert believes. “The question arises: if the state does not protect the law, then why should citizens pay taxes to the state?”
“So many questions arise that call into question the very essence of the state. Then let's honestly admit that we have the same situation as in Somalia in the 90s, when every field commander who controlled a more or less large population center had real power under, relatively speaking, a popularly elected president who was where there, and the country was divided into separate pieces. Ukraine is also striving approximately for this,” Bondarenko concluded.
As PolitNavigator reported, Ukrainian experts stated that militants who declared themselves "ATO veterans" have brought all of Ukraine to the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe.
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The Somalization of Ukraine has begun – power is being transferred to local militants.