Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine explains why is Russia invading it
Russia-Ukraine war: The war between Russia and Ukraine entered its eighth day on Thursday, with the former capturing southern city Kherson. Amid the deteriorating situation, the war-torn country explained why Ukraine was invaded by Russia.
Taking to Twitter, the official handle of Ukraine shared a link explaining ‘Why Russia invaded Ukraine?’
"Many people around the world now google: ‘Why Russia invaded Ukraine?’ Indeed, WHY? Here is a website to explain," the caption read as the official Twitter handle of the war-torn country shared a link."
It further asked netizens to share the link "far and wide."
Explaining the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the website said that since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has harboured deep hostility toward Independent Ukraine, which it still considers as a vital part of 'Mother Russia.'
"Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has continued to harbour significant resentment against Independent Ukraine, the country it still thinks of as a critical part of ‘Mother Russia’. It, therefore, considers the conquest of Ukraine as being vital for the restoration of its so-called Historical Russia," it read.
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Taking a dig at Russian President Vladimir Putin, the statement by Ukraine asserted that he "has spared no effort to promote the false historical narrative that Ukrainians and Russians constitute “one nation” adding that Putin adamant on reuniting the former Soviet Union's countries and reversing what he calls the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century.”
"His ultimate goal is to ‘right the wrongs’, as he seems them, of the fall of the USSR in the Cold War, thirty years ago. As a result, he wishes to reconstitute the entire European security architecture which will come at huge cost to the West. His recent articles and speeches on the subject have reportedly become compulsory reading for the Russian military," it continued.
The statement further added that Ukraine has irrevocably chosen a different path since gaining independence in 1991- "an independent path of democratic development, reform and European integration." The Kremlin, on the other hand, has chosen the path of conservation and groundless aspiration to reestablish its empire.
"The core values and DNA of Ukrainian society are values that are anathema to Putin; he can neither comprehend, nor tolerate, these values, and so instead he is seeking to destroy them," it added.
"As a result, the military aggression and outright violation of all international norms and laws is the only thing that Russia is able to propose to encourage independent states to move within the orbit of the ‘Russian world’ – its neo-imperial project."
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