Because of the Invasion, Ukraine now hates Russia: 'We Hate all Russians, from their Children to their Grandmothers

 

Ukraine used to be a very Russophile country. Many of them used to speak Russian, consume Russian products, many even had Russian spouses. This whole thing changed. Now Ukraine is the most Russophobic country in the world. Almost everyone there hates all Russian people, culture, everything.

 

And aren’t they right to do so? Of course they are. Not only Russian government is waging extermination war against them but normal Russian civilians aren’t protesting much, in fact many support Putin’s war… So in this story you will see how Ukraine’s attitude towards Russia changed since the start of the war. We support Ukraine!

 

One the left bank of Kyiv, ten miles from the city centre, sits a peaceful cemetery beside some woods where yellow and blue Ukrainian flags flap in bitterly cold wind above rows of freshly-dug graves for fallen soldiers.

 

Each mound of earth studding the snowy ground is covered with ornate displays of flowers, bursts of colour fringed with black ribbons offering sad messages of remembrance in gold script from families and comrades.

 

And each bears the picture of a Ukrainian hero above a stark sign recording their name and dates: some fresh-faced and barely out of school as they posed with guns, others grey-bearded, smiling men in their 40s and 50s.

 

Forest Cemetery is one among scores of such forlorn places scattered across this battered nation — testaments to the merciless waste of war.

 

As I walked in these sombre grounds, I counted almost 50 new graves for soldiers who had died in the first month of this year alone — a grim reminder of the immensity of this country’s suffering since the start of Russia’s invasion.

 

A grieving woman stood staring silently at the grave of her fiance on the day he would have turned 27 years old. ‘When we buried him, he was the last in this row, but now you can see there are lots of new ones,’ she said later.

 

Ira told me her fiance, a military medic, was honoured by their president for saving lives. ‘We hope so much the war will end soon since it’s very painful. Ukrainians have no choice but to continue. How many more people must we lose?’

 

This is the key question as the conflict reaches its first anniversary on February 24 — that historic day of infamy when Vladimir Putin unleashed hell on Ukraine in his bid to crush its independence and cripple its freedoms.

 

We have witnessed agony, brutality and carnage on a Dantean scale in the heart of Europe — yet Ukraine has stood strong, displaying courage and resistance to inspire democrats around the world in this fight against dictatorship.

 

We do not know the full horror — although sources indicate Ukraine may have lost at least 60,000 military personnel and Russia more than twice as many soldiers, alongside the sickening toll of murdered Ukrainian civilians from Lviv to Mariupol. Now, as the Kremlin limbers up for an anticipated new military offensive, siren voices in the West suggest Ukraine should accept some loss of terrain in return for ‘peace’.

 

These people claim to be realists yet display a dismal lack of understanding about the relentless nature of Putin’s aggression against Ukraine, let alone his readiness to strike others he views as weak. Above all, they fail to see the determined state of the country under attack and the furious mood of its citizens after a barrage of Russian atrocities. I would venture that most Ukrainians do not seek just to regain their occupied lands in the eastern Donbas region, recapture the southern strip along the Sea of Azov and retake the peninsula of Crimea seized in 2014.

 

They want to drive out any trace of Russian heritage that clings to their culture, demolish any reminders of their historic ties and do everything possible to ensure their future safety by destroying the bloodstained dictatorship over their border.

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