If there is one thing that truly disgusts me in the world’s reaction to Russian aggression is the naivety of the abstract calls to “stop the war” – without clarification WHO must stop it and HOW.

Such attitude trivializes the immense ongoing suffering of people in Mariupol, Kharkiv, Chernihiv and many other Ukrainian cities and villages. Like it’s not a true genocide, not the most ruinous war in Europe since WWII, but a mere fistfight of some teenagers in the school yard: “Oh, Ukraine, why can’t you simply be friends with Rashiya?”

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Переживаю “провину вижившого” вкупі з тугою за рідним містом, за різними речами, які залишилися вдома. Постійно думаю, що або дім розграбували, або що в нього влучила ракета і він завалився, і ламаю голову, що робити, якщо сталося перше або друге. Війна – тяжка психологічно навіть для того, кому пощастило не бути під постійними обстрілами і не бачити смерть в обличчя.

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Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is built on a lie. And I want everyone in the world to understand that. This whole war – since the annexation of Crimea and fake “referendums” in Donbas in 2014 and up to the full-scale invasion on the 24th of February in 2022 – is based on a terribly, perversly fake pretense. Russian president as well as many Russian politicians on many occasions said that Russian speakers in Ukraine were somehow oppressed or that they are threatened by Ukrainian nationalists. This is the most absurdist nonsense I have ever heard in my lifetime. This I am saying as a person who was speaking predominantly Russian for the most part of my life.

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