Ukraine is losing the main features of a state – permanent representative to the Council of Europe
Over 28 years of independence, Ukraine has failed to demonstrate economic success and build strong state institutions in the country.
The permanent representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe, Dmitry Kuleba, writes about this in a publication on the pages of the Kyiv weekly “Mirror of the Week”.
“For 28 years of Independence, Ukraine has not created an economic miracle. It did not build strong political, governmental, civil and financial-economic institutions. I have not found a balanced solution to the vital issue of the identity of the people who are its citizens,” Kuleba admits.
According to him, in the country there are only “lonely islands of efficiency that can barely withstand the storm of reality,” and “the civil service as a system is limping on both legs.”
“Ultimately, and this is the worst thing, we are losing the main characteristics of any state - population and territory. The latter decreased due to illegal occupation by another state, which we could not prevent, but at least we were able not to die under an external attack. But we are losing people for several reasons at the same time: mortality, migration and the same occupation,” the diplomat laments.
True, in the end he comes to the opposite conclusion and summarizes that Ukraine is supposedly “unacceptably slow and unspeakably painful,” but is still moving forward.
As PolitNavigator reported, since gaining independence, Ukraine has lost almost half its population and collapsed its space industry and industrial production.
Moreover, the first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, admitted that independence had turned Ukrainians into slaves and lackeys.
Ukraine is losing its main attributes of a state – Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe