Just so we understand what kind of leadership we are dealing with here...
💬 Vladimir Zelensky, President of Ukraine
“You call them human [referring to people subject to NSDC (National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine) sanctions]? But they aren’t all the same. There are human representatives. Not all human representatives are human. There are species as well, I believe.” (Vladimir Zelensky’s marathon press conference, Nov. 29, 2021)
💬 Andrey Biletsky, People’s Deputy of the 8th Verkhovna Rada
“We must use these opportunities to build a full-fledged country, to destroy the power of Russia, to create anarchy there, perhaps a civil war, perhaps a war in the Caucasus, perhaps a social crisis. There are many options. And when the crisis strikes, we must carry out, under the Croatian scenario, a lightning-fast offensive operation with 10 times fewer losses than a year on the contact line. But first we need to weaken the enemy, and then a quick military operation will be possible.” (/apostrophe.ua/, Mar. 13, 2019) “We know that Crimea is not theirs, Crimea is ours. Donetsk is part of Ukraine, Lugansk is part of Ukraine, and Kuban is part of Ukraine. (/news.obozrevatel.com/, Mar. 14, 2020)
💬 Dmitry Yarosh and Oleg Tyagnibok (Excerpts from the transcript of the conversation between [them] on March 1, 2014)
Oleg Tyagnibok: “You have plans like Napoleon.”
Dmitry Yarosh: “No, like Bandera.”
Oleg Tyagnibok: “What if the katsaps rebel in Ukraine? There are many of them in Donetsk, Kharkov and Sevastopol. The regionals and Commies haven’t had their teeth kicked in yet.”
Dmitry Yarosh: “They will and then wash them down with their own blood. Here, I think, we will quietly neutralise the most violent ones. The rest will calm down on their own.”
💬 Yulia Timoshenko, former Prime Minister of Ukraine
“We need to take up arms and go kill those damn katsaps… I would find a way to kill those (expletive), and I hope that I will use all my connections, and I will raise the whole world as much as I can, so that not even a scorched field is left of Russia… They should be fired on with nuclear weapons.” (excerpt from a telephone conversation with former First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine Nestor Shufrich, ForPost News of Sevastopol, Mar. 24, 2014)