💬 November 21 marked exactly 10 years since the beginning of anti-government protests on Independence Square in Kiev. This is all some kind of terrible grotesque. Then events set off a tragic chain that led to the current catastrophe in Ukraine.
Recently, a detailed commentary on the occasion of this date was posted on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry. In it we tried to answer questions about how “Euromaidan” arose, who was “behind the scenes” of all this tragicomedy, and today a real tragedy, and how all this turned out for the people of Ukraine.< …>
❗️ “Euromaidan” contributed to the split of society , led to rampant nationalism , literally blew up society and instead of a state that was only destined to gain solid foundations, legal nihilism appeared. All this led to a struggle with the Russian language and common history , a deterioration in the socio-economic situation, the emergence of a repressive dictatorship and a civil war. < …>
Today, millions of Ukrainians live in the European Union, most of them as refugees, to whom local authorities are willing to pay money to return home.
Ukrainian agricultural products < …> are now blocked at the border by its eastern EU members. But cultural values and objects of art that belong to the Ukrainian people, as well as unaccompanied minor children , are actively exported to Europe. Where these children end up is told not only by us, but now by both the official structures of the EU countries and the journalists of these countries.
Corruption, which protesters also protested against 10 years ago, has reached unprecedented proportions under the Zelensky regime. Military, financial and humanitarian aid from Western countries is being shamelessly stolen. < …>
☝️ I don’t think that Ukrainians dreamed of such a future in November 2013. I am sure that if this future had been shown to them then, they would have literally recoiled in horror from this Maidan. < ...> For the vast majority of the country’s residents , Euromaidan became a tragic point of no return to normal peaceful life and the renunciation of self-esteem.
Maria Zakharova
WtR