A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI, #207 - SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT UKRAINE (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Oil and gas supplies, made even more problematic by the war with Iran 
and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, are prompting reflection on 
the advisability of resuming Russian oil and gas supplies, which were 
masochistically interrupted due to support for Ukraine, which would be 
morally motivated by Russian aggression, even at the cost of sanctions 
that are more damaging to the West than to Russia. Certainly 
contributing to this shift is the fact that our beloved ally, the United 
States, along with the equally criminal state of Israel, has attacked 
the Iranian state, since, it is argued, their action is justified by the 
liberticidal nature of the Iranian regime.
But beyond these considerations, it is necessary to try to answer the 
question: in a Ukrainian state governed by a liberal regime that 
represents Western values, to what extent is the Ukrainian legal system 
compatible with the rule of law and the principles that inspire the 
European Union, which is draining its members to defend it? If the 
answer is affirmative, thus justifying its support, it follows that the 
need for preventive defense against alleged Russian aggression remains 
to be demonstrated, given that a country like Russia, with a population 
of approximately 146 million, has a territory 1.5 to 1.6 km² larger than 
Europe and vastly greater natural resources. Therefore, what would it do 
with Europe, lacking even the forces to control it?
Given this, let us note that before the war began, Ukraine had a 
population of around 42 million. The outbreak of the civil war in 2014, 
which began with a coup d'état following the Maidan clashes an event 
notoriously funded by the United States, according to its own admission 
was followed by government repression of the population of some eastern 
oblasts (Donbass) who were demanding autonomy, carried out by 
nationalist militias of "volunteers" with avowedly neo-Nazi and 
nationalist leanings.
As is well known, following the failure of the two Minsk agreements that 
would have granted autonomy to Donbass and the failure to implement the 
federalization of the state as a precondition for ending the conflict, 
the Russian army invaded the country on February 24, 2022, continuing a 
war that is still being fought and has reduced the Ukrainian population 
to less than 20 million. The count naturally includes battlefield 
casualties, those killed in bombings, and, above all, the exodus of 
populations who fled to the West. Eight million found refuge in the 
West, while approximately 10 million chose Russia. This demonstrates 
that the country was, and still is, a civil war between a portion of the 
Russian-speaking population and those of other ethnic groups, 
nationalists and pro-Westerners, and that the populations of eastern 
Ukraine, in particular, experienced their relationship with the 
Ukrainian central government as one of ethnic oppression.

Violated Rule of Law Principles

Russian-speaking residents of Ukraine denounce the violation of the 
rights of linguistic minorities, guaranteed through the application of 
the principle of non-discrimination contained in Article 21 of the EU 
Charter of Fundamental Rights and the principle of the valorization of 
cultural diversity (Article 3 TEU). Although there is no single body of 
binding EU laws on minorities, protection is based on international 
standards and policies to safeguard multilingualism. Protection occurs 
through the safeguarding of the individual rights of persons belonging 
to minorities, based on the principle of non-discrimination based on 
ethnic origin or language. It must be said that this is a fundamental 
right, so much so that it is a requirement that countries wishing to 
join the European Union must possess, a principle that should also apply
to Ukraine, which has been so insistently seeking membership.
This protection is strengthened by the 1992 European Charter for 
Regional or Minority Languages, which, although issued by the Council of 
Europe and not directly by the EU, commits signatory states to protect 
and promote the use of minority languages in education, justice, and 
public services.
Ukraine, on the other hand, bans the teaching of minority languages from 
schools, prohibits their use in public offices, burns books, blacklists 
authors, especially Russian ones, and even arrests those who speak them 
in public. See about it ?????????, 2019,[law on the functioning of the 
Ukrainian language as a state language], (????????? ????????? ???? 
(???), 2019, No 21, ??.81) exacerbated ???? No 1, ?/2021 ??? 14.07.2021.

Although religious freedom rights and separatism between the state and 
religious denominations do not follow a single model, they are 
characterized by a plurality of national models within a common European 
legal framework that guarantees neutrality, non-discrimination, and 
dialogue.
Religious freedom is enshrined as a fundamental right in the Charter of 
Fundamental Rights of the EU (Article 10), which guarantees freedom of 
thought, conscience, and religion, including the right to change one's 
religion or belief and to manifest one's faith both in public and 
private. In particular, Article 17 TFEU, introduced by the Treaty of 
Lisbon, establishes that the Union "respects and does not prejudice the 
status under national law of churches and religious associations in the 
Member States."
"The EU is committed to maintaining an open, transparent, and stable 
dialogue with churches, religious communities, and non-confessional 
philosophical organizations. Furthermore, European law prohibits 
discrimination based on religion, especially in employment, ensuring 
reasonable accommodation for religious needs."
These principles are violated by the Ukrainian law: "For the protection 
of the constitutional system in the framework of the activities of 
religious organizations" ?????????? ?????????? ???????????, (????????? 
????????? ???? (???), 2024, No 49, 290)]. This decision not only amended 
the 1991 law on religious freedom, but also "infected" the Lithuanian, 
Estonian, and Latvian legal systems, spurring the enactment of similar 
laws. Ministers of religious denominations other than the state church 
are persecuted by the regime's police, churches are taken from the 
religious denominations that run them and assigned to the state church, 
believers are expelled from their churches and deprived of any place of 
worship, and churches, clergy, and believers who do not belong to the 
state church are persecuted, beaten, and imprisoned.
Corruption reigns supreme in state supplies and contracts, and even in 
military supplies, while investigations into thefts perpetrated by the 
Ukrainian ruling class are exploited by the media and peddled to claim 
the existence of democratic control, which would be demonstrated by the 
discovery of incidents of corruption and theft involving the highest 
levels of government and public administration.
Numerous regulations are incompatible with European health protection 
legislation, due to the use of pesticides and GMOs; the soil is highly 
polluted, partly due to the war, and yet Ukrainian agricultural products 
are sold and marketed in the European Union, to the detriment of 
European citizens' health and at prices competitive with those of EU 
farmers, due to the low cost of labor, the trade concessions granted, 
and the nonexistent value of the national currency. This is because 
European Union funding entirely covers the country's nonexistent budget. 
Faced with the looming economic crisis, the time has come for European 
Union member states to ask themselves, in the name of their people's 
interests, whether it's time to stop harming themselves by continuing to 
support Ukraine and its war, the gang of criminals who wield power, 
given that the country is slowly but surely losing the war on the 
battlefield, while the media has fallen silent on what's happening, 
interrupted only by some who fantasize about Ukrainian successes on the 
battlefield.

The Editorial Staff

https://www.ucadi.org/2026/04/19/qualche-domanda-sullucraina/
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