One may think that ordinary people are ready to give up to save a life. But we aren't. The opinion poll held last week confirmed "NO" to Russian demands.
12 March 2022 — Sergiy Sydorenko, European Pravda, for Berlingske
This is a matter of national life or death. Her final words were: "I respectfully urge the court to issue your order with utmost urgency. We are in your hands."
It is not the first such declaration in history. A similar one was signed during the Second World War, which subsequently resulted in the Nuremberg trials where Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes.
I write this with a loud airborne alert in Kyiv, but I don't leave to the shelter. Amazing how quickly people are used to the new danger – I hardly react to sirens unless I hear blasts nearby.
The world will be a different place after this war. It will be a different Ukraine, it will be a different European Union. Even Russia will be different.
3 March 2022 — Andrius Kubilius, Andrius Kubilius, Member of the European Parliament
The entire population united to resist the invasion. Ukrainian moral was high, they supported their army and their government. They were proud and defiant.
2 March 2022 — Daniel Newell, an American who lived in Ukraine until the Russian invasion
The sanctions should also target ordinary Russian citizens. Those should suffer. Painfully. Even if goes contrary to the "matrix" of the democratic world.
Vladimir Putin's war crimes and crimes against the peace of the Kremlin leadership must be punished. Time for dialogue and unjustified hopes is exhausted.
There is a doubt that Russia is a member of the United Nations at all. European Pravda spoke with Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsa, Ukraine's envoy to the UN.
Canada and its government are known for their pro-Ukrainian stance and criticism of Russia. It is, therefore, surprising that, unlike many other countries, Ottawa has chosen not to give Ukraine lethal weapons.