“Putin hates us without knowing us”: Ukrainian author Yuri Andrukhovych
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Writer Yuri Andrukhovych has been warning of a Russian attack on Ukraine for years. Putin hates us without knowing us, says Andrukhovych. If Putin’s army approaches, he wants to join the partisans.
Yuri Andrukhovych, you are in Ivano-Frankvivsk, your hometown in western Ukraine. I hope you are reasonably well?
Yes, I’m fine, even if that sounds unusual in these times.
Even before the war broke out, you were saying that there are only two solutions to this crisis: either we surrender and recognize that we are one nation with the Russians. Or Putin will destroy us. How do you assess the situation today, on the sixth day of the war?
What we are experiencing is not a crisis, it is a big war. And Putin wants to destroy us. He is waging a war against civilians, against a peaceful populace. Russian soldiers shoot at children, at women. This is the greatest war crime of this century.
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