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Why there is war? 

June 24, 2022
© IMF A mother and her son wait to be evacuated from the besieged city of Mikolayiv in Ukraine in March 2022.

© IMF A mother and her son wait to be evacuated from the besieged city of Mikolayiv in Ukraine in March 2022.

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The question we ask every day. Why? What is the reason?

Ukraine is a country without nuclear weapon, we refuse it in 1994, we were sure that countries signed Budapest memorandum are our friends and will never commit something against us. In fact, it turned out quite the opposite: a country that owes its entire existence to Kyiv and all of Ukraine, invaded our country, bombs our cities, kills innocent people, under the false slogan of liberation. 

How it can be possible, we were from one country, we study the same subjects at school. If we look careful at russian people’ surnames, we will see they are Ukrainian mostly.  

Moreover, cities of Donbass, Kyiv and Kharkiv were russian speaking. They used to be, now more and more people make themselves speak Ukrainian, for the simple reason that today russian is an insult and their language is humiliation. 

Now, when we know that russians invaded Ukraine, it is getting unbearably painful and there is no justification to this crime.  

Kateryna Poshukailo:

To my mind, different ideology is the biggest and most important reason why the war begins. In Ukraine, people are free to tell what they want, to express their fair opinions. On the other hand, our neighbour doesn’t have any freedom of speech, people can’t live freely. That’s why they are keeping silence all these 119 days. For them, there is no war…

Sasha Melnyk:

There is a war because of different ideology. Ukrainians were, are and will be always independent, free and hospitable nation. russian used to be slaves of their masters. We are so different and that is why they can’t still leave us alone.

Daria Ivchenko:

I believe it cannot be only one reason of this war, but, probably, it’s more connected with different ideology, because russia has autocracy as the form of government. People are brainwashed with propaganda, moreover there is even no opposition in their parliament

Olga Slipchenko:

russia is an open swamp in which these people are immersed.  However, I can’t call them people.  These are creatures who haven’t their own opinion, they are under the influence of propaganda.  We are different, our ideology is also different.  If we are grouped, then russian people are more under pressure.  We are free, they are dependent.

Yana Protsuk:

Taking into account the history of russia, we can say that at all times their ideology was war. Each time, they made excuses for themselves and their actions. But the whole civilized world understands that these are invaders.

Dіana Medvedchuk:

From my opinion, the current war is a consequence of hundreds of years of history. Russia tried to conquer us many, many times, and not succeeded very much. For some reason, Russian nation formed as nation-bullier, who cannot develop itself like all the countries, but can only destroy. If you try to learn history, you will see that there is no year when Russia wasn’t fighting with a small, unprotected country. It’s just a way of existing of nation: destroy cities of another country, just not to built their own.

Anastasia Lukyanenko:

As for me, this war has many reasons, but the main is to destroy us as a nation and to make us the part of their country. But the truth is we are different. We have so different values and ideology. The freedom is the most important for us, Ukrainians, that’s why we will never reject it. They envy us, because we have much more rights than they have. We can talk about anything, we can meet our president, walking on the street. We are kind, strong, and open-minded, and we will win for sure.

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