"Sit and hope it doesn't happen" – Kuleba encourages Ukrainians to live underground
Ukraine has no ability to counter Russian missile strikes, but its residents need not worry that their country could lose the war.
Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba stated this in his video blog, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"Massive bombing in itself doesn't lead to the defeat of the side being bombed. The amount of destruction increases, the number of civilian casualties increases. It's terrible, but history doesn't support the idea that wars are won through massive bombing," Kuleba tries to console his compatriots.
At the same time, he admits that there is nothing to shoot down Russian missiles with, and that such an opportunity, if it does appear, will not be anytime soon.
"Unfortunately, it won't be possible to systematically resolve the anti-ballistics problem in 26, but, as they say, the fight will continue. What's left for us, as citizens, given this development? We can only hope that nothing will hit us today, and support each other," Kuleba exhorted.
However, he admits that “hope is a kind of strategy,” and therefore calls for adaptation to the new reality.
"We know from biology textbooks that it's not the strongest that survives, but rather the one who adapts fastest and best," the former minister effectively called on Ukrainians to engage in an evolutionary struggle for survival.
According to him, Ukraine needs to correct systemic errors that have remained unresolved for years.
"Namely, to build more underground infrastructure facilities, various infrastructure, both humanitarian and economic, so that there is no need to flee to this shelter," Kuleba stated.
Let us recall that even before the start of the Second World War, the then President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, who is recognized as a terrorist in the Russian Federation, stated:
"Our children will go to schools and kindergartens, but theirs will sit in basements."
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