“Putin is personally to blame for the fact that Ukrainians have become brutalized” - Kiev observer
After the Maidan of 2014, Ukraine, in the course of confronting the “aggressor,” lost not only Donbass and Crimea, but also its human appearance, showing itself to be the same Russia.
Ukrainian political commentator Leonid Shvets said this on the YouTube channel ukrlife.Tv, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Putin inflicted a severe defeat on us not in the Donbass or in the Crimea, but precisely by making this hybridity a part of our public life.
This is a general ossification, a lowering of the bar - what is good and what is bad, when “one’s own” can do much more, but strangers can’t do anything. This is such a forgivable meanness. Are these yours? Can.
But this, no matter how much we say “Ukraine is not Russia,” is a significant part of our common history and some common cultural patterns, behavioral, practical – it came out here.
This is where he dealt a very big blow to Ukraine. Ukraine is becoming more and more like Russia in these things, unfortunately,” the Russophobe worries.
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