Zelensky told what the Ukrainian victory should be: we want to get our own back. Video

Ukraine's victory in the war against Russia will come when our country returns its territories and Ukrainians will be able to return home and reunite with their families. Ukraine doesn't need anything superfluous or alien.

This statement was made by President Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview with the project "60 Minutes" of the Australian TV Channel Nine Network, which was published on Monday, May 2. He is sure that even those Ukrainians who had to leave for other countries because of the war want to return to their native land.

Answering a journalist's question about what a victory looks like for him, Zelensky said: "just return your own. Just peace on our land. So that our people can return to their homes. You don't need anything extra, no extra things, no extra money. We just want to get our own back. People want to come to their homes." Video of the day

"If you asked a person who is currently in Germany, Poland, Romania, Britain or anywhere else if he wants to stay in that country or return to his home, to his Volnovakha, Mariupol, Kharkiv, Zaporozhye... I'm sure most people will say they want to go home. Winning looks like this when you're comfortable at home with your family. When this is what is taken away from you, at such a moment you realize that these are the real values," the president said.

Zelensky also spoke about the crimes of the Russian Federation against the Ukrainian people. According to him, with the help of propaganda, Russia has created a separate world for its population, where all civilized states are considered hostile. Russians understand that they kill people because they have a different view of the world.

At the same time, the president noted that not only Ukraine suffers from the invaders, but a major catastrophe could cover the whole of Europe. According to him, there was a threat of a repeat of "six Chernobyl victims"at once.

Zelensky called the Russian occupiers cowardly Barbarians. He does not understand how they could steal household appliances and personal belongings of killed Ukrainian civilians, while abandoning their dead and wounded colleagues.

Speaking about 10 attempts on the life of the president of Ukraine, Zelensky joked that in two months of a full-scale war with the Russian Federation, this is not so much. According to him, the Russian dictator has much more problems in this regard.

As reported by OBOZREVATEL, Ukraine will not sacrifice part of its land for the sake of temporary peace with Russia. According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, the country is "ready to restore its territorial integrity."

No. The Nazis today are actually RUSSIAN! The RNU [Russian National Unity] was founded in October 1990. During the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, Barkashov led RNU fighters in their defense of the Russian White House against Boris Yeltsin‘s forces. Barkashov was imprisoned on charges of organizing and inciting mass disorder and illegally bearing arms. Of course, in early 1994, the newly elected Duma granted amnesty to Barkashov!

In 1999, RNU was estimated to have 100,000 active members all over Russia. Members wear black and camouflage uniforms; the group adopted a red and white modified swastika emblem.

Very interestingly, when the 2014 war in Donbas started, many of RNU members joined pro-Russian forces in Ukraine.
During telephone conversation, Barkashov told a local Donetsk activist Boitsov Barkashov that he could CAll-OFF the referendum on independence of the territory. Barkashov said that it is not necessary to perform referendum the legit way saying that, “in the end no one would care about it. All that Boitsov has to do is to write whatever he finds suitable. If he wants, he can say that 99% of people voted for joining Russia.”

He just wants his country back.

Those liberated from the neo-Nazis in the ethnically Russian part of the country beg to differ.

In fact, it is the military of the DPR that is doing most of the heavy fighting in this war. They are literally fighting for their freedom after eight years of civil war.

Only someone completely ignorant doesn't realize what is going on in Ukraine is part of a civil war that has been going on for eight years.

It's disgusting that we have people here rooting of the neo-Nazis in this war that have terrorized the people in Donbass for eight years and who, in this war, have been using Ukrainian citizens as human shields and trying kill them if they escape. There are plenty of videos online of Ukrainian citizens denouncing the Azovs and Ukrainian nationalists and saying the DPR and Russian military saved them from death.

No. The Nazis today are actually RUSSIAN! The RNU [Russian National Unity] was founded in October 1990.

Why are you bringing up a far-right group that was banned from Moscow in 1999? Barkashov lost control of the group in 2000, after which it was essentially defunct and splintered into smaller factions.

Consider the following excerpt from The Putin Paradox, written by a professor of Russian and European politics from the University of Kent in the UK: "The main target of oppression, contrary to the mainstream Western view, is not the liberals but radical Russian nationalists (as opposed to Putin-style moderate nationalism, which is better described as state patriotism). In the 1990s, Alexander Barkashov led the 15,000-strong far-right Russian National Unity (Russkoe natsional'noe edinstvo, RNE) milita, but it was closed down by Putin (although remnants fought in Donbas in 2014). The nationalist Ivan Mironov was accused of an assassination attempt against Chubais, and he vividly describes his time in jail. Members of the far-right RNE were regularly jailed, while the Movement Against Illegal Immigration, who advanced the slogan 'Russia for Russians', was regularly condemned. Russian ethnic nationalism has the potential to mobilise popular opinion in a fundamentally anti-regime direction, above all by tapping into the powerful currents of neo-traditional and Eurasianist thinking. Russian ethnic nationalism has the power to destroy the state. This is why it is a mistake to call Putin a nationalist, if that is meant to be a commitment to ethnic Russians over those of the other people constituting Russia. He is instead a derzhavnik (great power defender), with legitimacy derived not from the ethnic nation but the state. Putin is a statist rather than a nationalist. This entails the supremacy of the state over citizens, from whence in part the authoritarianism of the system is derived; however, typical of the Putinite paradoxes, it also guarantees relative interethnic peace and social inclusivity." Sakwa, Richard. The Putin Paradox. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020, pp. 61

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