Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Kyiv’s mayor worries Ukraine under Zelensky becoming increasingly autocratic
The Globe and Mail ^ | 1/19/24 | Mark Mackinnon

Posted on 01/22/2024 6:16:25 PM PST by hardspunned

His country is at war, and he knows everyone is supposed to rally behind the flag and the President. But Vitaly Klitschko says he also has a responsibility to speak out about what he sees as Ukraine’s drift away from the democratic principles it’s supposed to be fighting for.

In the eyes of the mayor of Kyiv, his country is heading in the wrong direction, becoming increasingly autocratic. For the past 23 months, Ukraine’s main television channels have broadcast a single program, United News Telemarathon, that Mr. Klitschko says allows little space for dissenting voices – while journalists critical of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his administration have come under pressure. Mr. Klitschko says more than 200 mayors and local council heads around the country have been replaced with military administrators since the Russian invasion began in February, 2022.

Both measures were adopted under the martial law Mr. Zelensky declared in response to the attack. But Mr. Klitschko worries that the freedoms and reforms Ukrainians fought for over the course of two pro-Western revolutions earlier this century are being undone.

(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-23 next last
From MAGA eyes, politically, Ukraine looks a lot like post Obama Amerika.
1 posted on 01/22/2024 6:16:25 PM PST by hardspunned
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: hardspunned

That right there is a career ender. Very likely a life ender.


2 posted on 01/22/2024 6:21:24 PM PST by webheart
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: hardspunned

His country is at war, and he knows everyone is supposed to rally behind the flag and the President. But Vitaly Klitschko says he also has a responsibility to speak out about what he sees as Ukraine’s drift away from the democratic principles it’s supposed to be fighting for.

In before the Neocon Cheerleaders calling Klitschko a Putin Puppet!!!!


3 posted on 01/22/2024 6:24:19 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: hardspunned

It appears that Z is about to sack his only other heard critic, Commander in Chief Zaluzhnyi and will replace him with his loyal intelligence chief, Budanov. This place is beginning to reek of Stalinism.


4 posted on 01/22/2024 6:26:14 PM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BobL

I don’t think he makes it to the summer. The pressure’s too high. Unless NATO decides to take the big step.


5 posted on 01/22/2024 6:26:40 PM PST by struggle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: hardspunned

Neocons/NATO won’t give up on Ukraine

They’ll promote an fund an insurgency / guerrilla war.


6 posted on 01/22/2024 6:31:40 PM PST by PGR88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: hardspunned

Valerii Zaluzhnyi may organize a coup and overthrow Zelensky. Then ask Putin for a ceasefire. Putin will demand the four oblasts, Zaluzhnyi agrees.

7 posted on 01/22/2024 6:32:43 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: hardspunned
Imagine that! Read in Canada's Globe and Mail.

Sounds like a daily small step in "narrative change."

8 posted on 01/22/2024 6:34:45 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: webheart

I want my money back. All of it. Now. Biden can send me reparations.


9 posted on 01/22/2024 6:38:35 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Honorary Serb

Ping.


10 posted on 01/22/2024 6:43:46 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BobL

Don’t care, up to our chin in Marxists here.


11 posted on 01/22/2024 7:12:22 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: PGR88
Neocons/NATO won’t give up on Ukraine

You got that right!

They've killed or wounded upwards of 1,000,000 Ukies with their insane war. It is a US/NATO war -- not a Ukraine war. The Ukies are just stupid and corrupt enough to sign up for the destruction of their country.

Way to go US/NATO. Protecting democracy by ravaging an entire country.

12 posted on 01/22/2024 7:15:24 PM PST by icclearly ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: icclearly
They've killed or wounded upwards of 1,000,000 Ukies with their insane war. It is a US/NATO war -- not a Ukraine war. The Ukies are just stupid and corrupt enough to sign up for the destruction of their country.

Not an easy question. What will you do if you are an Ukrainian and the Russians are invading your country?

They remember what it was like to be under the control of the Soviets.

Makes sense why they're fighting like hell

13 posted on 01/22/2024 7:18:38 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: icclearly
They've killed or wounded upwards of 1,000,000 Ukies with their insane war.

There is a real number, and it's about 150,000.

14 posted on 01/22/2024 8:39:11 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

Meanwhile, the Ukies are suffering ( once again) horrendous losses at Avidivka,…18 armored vehicles, 1,000 casualties last night….only a matter of time before St Zelensky gets ousted by his military.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnWUBkXjrEs


15 posted on 01/22/2024 9:54:51 PM PST by delta7
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Chad C. Mulligan

“There is a real number, and it’s about 150,000.”

The Russian losses posted here on other threads are almost 400,000. Since Russia has four times the population this is not a good casualty ratio for Ukraine. eventually Ukraine will run out of bodies. Then what?


16 posted on 01/22/2024 10:14:21 PM PST by rxh4n1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: hardspunned

iirc Klitschko was referred to in Victoria Nuland’s phone call, and that he needed time to get experience before he was raised up in the ranks.

All part of the Obama plan.


17 posted on 01/23/2024 3:54:28 AM PST by Grey182 (Trump won, Benedict XVI never resigned & Jeffery Epstein didn't kill himself.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: hardspunned

Yep
A queer comic becomes “president” and things go to 💩...

Kind of parallels us with a senile pedo in charge....


18 posted on 01/23/2024 5:37:47 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican
Not an easy question. What will you do if you are an Ukrainian and the Russians are invading your country?

Really. It's not that hard.

You honor the agreements like Minsk that you made, or better yet, you agree to a very favorable resolution within the first two months of the SMO to settle the whole affair. An agreement, by the way, that was stopped dead in its tracks by US/UK/NATO.

After all, the Ruskies were acting no different than we would act if China formed a military coalition with Mexico and Canada and placed missiles right on our border, now would they?

Think Tijauna and Juarez.

You know, like we did when Cuba placed missiles on their little island in 1962. We launched a monumental military assault and threatened WWIII over a few little missiles. Get it?

19 posted on 01/23/2024 6:30:11 AM PST by icclearly ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Chad C. Mulligan
There is a real number, and it's about 150,000.

That may be true in your little mind.

If your number is true, why is Zelensky the homoclown dragging people off the street and recruiting Ukie women to go to the front line to be slaughtered?

20 posted on 01/23/2024 6:32:42 AM PST by icclearly ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-23 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson