After 1,000 Days of Putin’s Expanded Invasion, Ukraine Now Very Much a Real State, Rodnyansky Says

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Nov. 18 – Having resisted the Russian invasion, Ukraine has “won with blood its fight to exist with a free life and its own future,” Aleksandr Rodnyansky says, adding that as a result and exactly opposite to what Putin intended Ukraine over the last 1,000 days “has become a real state, one far from perfect and with thousands of problems but real.”
    As a result, it can be said that Putin has failed and Ukrainians have succeeded, the Ukrainian film maker says, For Putin, Ukrainian statehood has “always been fake,” something he and his band have never really believed in (t.me/alexander_rodnyansky/1900 reposted at echofm.online/opinions/1000-dnej-polnomasshtabnoj-fazy-vojny).
    The Kremlin leader called Ukraine “an anti-Russia project” and expected that the Russian army would be welcomed as “liberators from the oppression of Bandera” and that Russian victory would come quickly with the flight of the Ukrainian government and “the transformation of Ukraine into a version of Belarus.”
    But things didn’t work out as Putin and his ilk expected, Rodnyansky continues. The Ukrainians have resisted, and they will continue to do so, hopefully with the continued assistance of the civilized world. But even if that assistance declines, the Ukrainians will continue to fight to defend their nation and their state.