The tragedy of Ukraine: Russia, an aggressor without limits!

The tragedy of Ukraine: Russia, an aggressor without limits!

in the Ukraine conflict, which now lasts the third year, the devastating humanitarian consequences are dramatic. The life of the Ukrainian Yaroslav Bazylevch on September 4, 2024 was destroyed in a tragic way when a Russian rocket hit his home and his wife Evgenia and the three daughters cost life. "My whole life was wiped out at a moment," he describes the cruel reality of the war. In the first seven months of 2024 alone, 341 children were killed or injured, a devastating expression of the extent of the war, which emphasizes that there is an individual fate behind each number, as that of Yaroslav, so reports krone. .

The history of Ukraine and the constant struggle for survival

The conflict has deeper roots that Yaroslav Hrytsak illuminates in his book "Ukraine. Biography of a distressed nation". Hrytsak argues that Ukraine always acted as a game ball of powerful neighbors and could never reach the status of an independent state. In his opinion, Ukraine is severely affected by Russian dominance, which goes back to the tragic events of Chernobyl, where local managers were not allowed to make decisions even in significant affairs, as Hrytsak emphasizes. This can be seen in the systematic disregard of Ukrainian autonomy over several centuries, as well as