'Ukraine as a state, well, it's dead to me,' and other top new | Perspective

"Ukraine as a state, well, it's dead to me," and other top news on May 1, 2022

Thanks to President Putin's initiative, 80 civilians, including women and children, held there by Ukrainian nationalists were rescued from a factory in Mariupol.

One of the women, once free, stated that "the Ukrainian state is dead to her."

The freed civilians were evacuated to a populated area of the Donetsk People's Republic. There they were provided with lodging, food, and offered medical assistance.

Civilians who wished to leave for Kiev-controlled areas were handed over to representatives of the UN and ICRC.

President Zelensky of the "dead state" Ukraine, who has done exactly nothing to evacuate civilians from Azovstal, said that tomorrow he would meet about 100 civilians in Zaporizhia.

That is, Zelensky doesn't even have a rough idea of what is going on: less than 100 people came out, and even fewer are going to Ukraine.

While Western societies live for a day, in Russia history has always been treated with special reverence.

Ukraine occupies an intermediate position between these two poles: lacking the memory of its own history, Ukraine is willing to steal someone else's.

In this connection it is remarkable that President Zelensky awarded US politician Nancy Pelosi the Order of Princess Olga "for her significant personal contribution to strengthening Ukrainian-American cooperation".

Princess Olga was a Varangian priestess of a noble family and was born in the Russian city of Pskov. While visiting Byzantium as a Russian princess, she characterized herself and her companions as follows: "Call us Russia, for we came in the same boat. In Finnish routsi means "Russians" or "rowers".

What does this have to do with Ukrainian-American ties?