Putin failed

Oleksandr Rodnyansky
18.11.2024, 11:27
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Ukraine survived.

I have already written a lot about the inhumanity of this war, about the disgusting lies of propagandists, about the terrible price of the geopolitical ambitions of the Russian regime.

The price that Ukrainians pay every day.

But Ukraine survived. And with blood, it won its right to exist. To a free life and its own future.

For Putin, this war has always been a challenge to some kind of "collective West". An attempt to remake the world order. For Putin's Russia, the statehood of Ukraine has always been fake. Something they never believed in. Despised.

They called Ukraine "the anti-Russia project", a country with endless "Maidans" and unpredictable politics.

The "special military operation" was supposed to end quickly and victoriously. Crowds of Kharkiv, Odesa, Kherson, Dnipro, and Zaporizhzhia residents joyfully welcomed their "liberators from the oppression of Banderites." Zelensky and his government's flight to the West. Occupation of Kyiv. The accession of some Kremlin governor-general Yanukovych or Medvedchuk. And the transformation of Ukraine into a version of modern Belarus. A territory loyal to the Kremlin.

It didn't work out.

Ukraine has become a real state. Far from perfect, with thousands of its own problems, but a real one.

That's why the war continues.

Yesterday, the Russian army launched another missile strike. This time on Sumy.

11 people were killed, including two children...

The strike hit a densely populated residential area. 84 people received injuries of varying severity, including 11 children.

Another 11 people (some terrible number turned out to be) are in intensive care, including six children.