#proud to be ukrainian
An amazing speech by Kenya at the UN Security Council regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, 22/02/2022 (video excerpt from this reddit post)
Transcript:
Kenya is gravely concerned by the announcement made by the Russian Federation to recognise Donetsk and Luhansk Regions of Ukraine as independent states. In our considered view, this action and announcement breaches the territorial integrity of Ukraine. We do not deny that there may be serious security concerns in these regions, but they cannot justify today’s recognition of these regions as independent states. Not when there are multiple diplomatic tracks available and underway that have the ability to offer peaceful solutions.
Mr President, this situation echoes our history. Kenya and almost every African country was birthed by the ending of empires. Our borders were not of our own drawing. They were drawn in the distant colonial metropolis of London, Paris and Lisbon with no regard for the ancient nations that they cleaved apart. Today, across the border of every single African country live our countrymen with whom we share deep historical, cultural and linguistic bonds. At independence, had we chosen to pursue states on the basis of ethnic, racial or religious homogeneity, we would still be waging bloody wars these many decades later. Instead, we agreed that we would settle for the borders that we inherited, but we would still pursue continental, political, economic and legal integration. Rather than form nations that looked ever-backword into history with a dangerous nostalgia, we chose to look forward to a greatness none of our nations and many peoples had ever known. We chose to follow the rules of the Organisation of African Unity and the United Nations Charter; not because our borders satisfied us, but because we wanted something greater forged in peace.
We believe that all states formed from empires that have collapsed or retreated have many peoples in them yearning for integration from people in neighbouring states. This is normal and understandable. After all, who does not want to be joined to the brethren and to make common purpose with them? However, Kenya rejects such a yearning from being pursued by force. We must complete our recovery from the embers of dead empires in a way that does not plunge us back into new forms of domination and oppression. We rejected irredentism and expansionism on any basis including racial, ethnic, religious or cultural factors. We reject it again today.
Kenya registers its strong concern and opposition to the recognition of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states. We further strongly condemn the trend in the last few decades of powerful states including members of this security council breaching international law with little regard.
Three months of the Russo Ukrainian war in 100 seconds.
They also stole public busses from Mariupol and gave those to terrorists in occupated regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. They said that “people from Mariupol won’t need those”. Fuckheads. I hate them so much.
And they are giving out water in places near improvised cemeteries, which are regular public places but filled with rotten corpses of civilians. People are said to faint while standing in the queue and only receive some water after standing in the queue for 2 days
It is so easy to be a hippie and a pacifist when your military is strong enough to protect you from a possible attack.
It is so easy to “both sides uwu” things when it’s not you who is being bombed.
It is easy to be anti-army when your very life does not depend on your army’s ability to protect you.
It’s a sign of immensepriviledge.
This!!! I had a huge mental breakdown over not being able to be a pacifist like before, since it has always been a huge chunk of my identity. And many of people I admire won’t understand me until they live through something like this. Which makes me feel lonely and isolated from others. They won’t understand that it’s not even sweet sweet revenge, it’s a mean of survival. That I’m able to write this only because brave soldiers in our army are giving their lives everyday for our survival.
It’s fucked up that safety and peace are a privilege and not something everyone can have. And how people hypocritically dismiss it, blaming us, Ukrainians, for fighting back to survive.
I took this picture in August 2021 in Lubny, Ukraine when I was on my way from Kyiv to Poltava. It’s a monument which has the following text on it; “My people exist! My people will always be here! No one will abolish my people!”. These are the words of Vasyl Symonenko, who is considered one of the most important figures in Ukrainian literature. In 1963, he was badly beaten by the Soviet Police for promoting Ukrainian identity and writing in Ukrainian. He never recovered and died soon in the local hospital. He was 28.
This is just one of the thousands of events showing Russian expansionist attitude toward Ukraine, its people, and their national identity.
When the first Ukrainian-Soviet War took place, NATO didn’t exist. When Russia first invaded Ukraine, the US didn’t exist. Let’s not be fooled by the Russian propaganda trying the justify their expansionist and irridentist goals.
Слава Україні!
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“I thought only anti-russia russians go abroad”
HA-HA-HA
No, unfortunately.
When we were evacuating in a bus, there was a woman who started proving that putler is great. When we asked her why she was there and not in her beloved russia she said “it’s non of your business”
When I called a taxi to my exam because it was very far, a taxi driver called my people “annoying khokhly”.
There are PRETTY MUCH rashists abroad
Exactly! I remember a video from one of russian influencers, who was in the USA when the war started, and he was bitching about not being allowed in a theme park. And guess what he said? That it was scandalous, that POC were allowed in the park and he wasn’t.
C'mon, they’re not leaving their bigotry and supremacist tendencies behind when they leave russia! And, remind you, these are the qualities promoted and celebrated under russian propaganda
KHERSON IS UKRAINE, ALWAYS HAS BEEN AND WILL ALWAYS BE
Even now people are fighting back and standing up to occupiers, brave civilians waiting for brave military to rescue the cities
Ok, listen up! I need all of you to go to this site and read the presentation. It’s short, it’s interesting, it gives JUST WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IF YOU’RE EVEN NOT REALLY INTERESTED IN WAR AND DEATHS OF OUR PEOPLE. It has info about the importance of Ukraine, the 2014 revolution and the current war. It works ABSOLUTELY WELL in mobile version, it even has pictures! Also, please, share this post and link as much as you can!
And for lazybones who skip written text and only looks for pics on tumblr, I screenshot some important parts of the presentation, but it has so much more interesting stuff
Please, please please read up! I mean, cmon, we even made Grammarly! And Reface!
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Btw it’s dangerous to swim in the rivers, seas and lakes because of mines and bombs planted there. A refugee from Donetsk was recently killed by a russian bomb at the beach, where we used to go almost every year. The explosives are small and it’s hard to understand that it is, in fact, a bomb, so you need to be extra careful
