Andrey Kurkov
Author, Ukraine Diaries
Ukrainian society is united more than before and it was consolidated by Maidan events. They are together. And it doesn’t matter whether they are Jews, Greeks, Bulgarians, Hungarians. The only way forward for Ukraine, and the only way to move towards Europe is to build a political nation where everybody feels equal and everybody feels Ukrainian as in England, everyone feels British, whether they are Indian, Pakistanis, ex-Polish, Russian, or English, or Scottish.
以英国为例,现在看来有点讽刺。
Anne Applebaum
Author, Gulag: A History
Ukraine’s become a piece of a bigger struggle which I think is really going to be about the future of European democracy. Can European democracy even survive, into the 21st Century? Ukraine is really the first step in a Russian attempt and effort undermine and destroy the West. And this is said openly in Russia, you don’t need to be a conspiracy theorist to think that.
Chrystia Freeland
International Trade Minister, Canada
Ukraine is an illustration and a demonstration of Russia’s national goals. Precisely for the reasons that Putin fears and opposes the rise of a democratic, prosperous rule of law Ukraine. We should be doing everything we can to encourage it. I am convinced that the path to democracy in Russia goes through Ukraine.
最后的说明:
123 protesers were murdered on the Maidan.
10,012 Ukrainians have been killed during the war in Eastern Ukraine.
1.9 million Ukrainian refugees have been forced to flee because of the Russian invasion.
Warfare continues to take the lives of Ukrainians every day.