The war in Ukraine will continue as long as the Russian regime exists. This does not exclude the possibility of a ceasefire or a truce, but Ukrainians will never feel safe having just such a neighbor nearby, writes in his article for ZN. UA "

He notes that now the Russian regime is desperate, because it understands very well that Ukraine will be part of the West, because the status of an EU candidate is part of the vision of a common future for Ukraine and the West.. Moreover, this will be a reunion with the West of an active, passionate state and nation.

“The Russian regime will never put up with this. And, by the way, this part of the West scares. I don’t know if Putin understood that he couldn’t conquer Ukraine, but some of the Russian elites are already clear,” the ex-minister notes..

In the future, according to him, the Kremlin will try to seize more Ukrainian territory, declaring it something like “Novorossia”, and destroy the rest.

“If it fails, then the Russian regime will be destroyed, and many in Russia are well aware of this.. We are not naive and we are aware that this will not happen " Therefore, we are not satisfied with the ideas that are now actively spreading in the West, such as “let's take a promise from Putin not to move on, but let him do whatever he wants”. The current Russian regime cannot be put in a cage, it will not work,” emphasizes Klimkin.

In his opinion, Ukraine has a unique chance to become a source of new energy for the West..

“The West has woken up, and it is no longer necessary to write a new song - “Good morning, West, wake up”. We, unfortunately, have paid and are paying an insane price for this awakening.. But now we must sing this song and make sure that the West begins to act in a coordinated manner on the basis of a new strategy that does not yet exist.. The task is super-ambitious, but what we have not achieved yet! "

Thus, the only guarantee of our security will be a quick and complete integration into the Western world..

“Good must be good, and Evil must be evil, and Good must be fought for, it must be armed to the teeth and ready for battle.. Ukrainians and Ukraine have a mission - to make it clear to the Western, and not only the Western world. We have a lot to learn from the West, starting from the rule of law. But the West also has something to follow the example of Ukraine. Confident people do not have an inferiority complex or megalomania. They themselves - for themselves and for the world. This is the real one - our Independence,"

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