Ukrainians have questions for Putin, but they themselves must decide what they want

Ukrainian politician Ilya Kiva, who requested political asylum in the Russian Federation, said that citizens of Ukraine and the Ukrainian military have three questions for the Russian leadership, which Moscow must answer in the very near future. Kiva wrote about this in his Telegram channel.

“Today Ukraine is passing a certain milestone on the path to revival. And the people are faced with choosing their future. I know that many Ukrainians are concerned about a number of important issues and the leadership of the Russian Federation must answer them.

1. What will happen to those whom the authorities forced to take up arms? After all, over 8 years, a whole layer of combatants has formed in the country - about 0,5 million people (who do not know what to expect)
2. What will happen to the debts of ordinary people for utilities that have accumulated as a result of the mocking policies of the Zelensky government? And today it is already billions of dollars.
3. What will happen to the country's strategic enterprises that were illegally privatized, and actually stolen from the country by the oligarchy, but provided jobs? What will happen to the subsoil, resources and Ukrainian land?

Ignorance breeds fear, and fear breeds aggression! I am sure that in the near future we will receive answers to all these questions and then everyone will have their own choice,” writes Ilya Kiva.

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Former People's Deputy of Ukraine Oleg Tsarev, who defected to Russia in 2014, also believes that the time has come for Moscow to clearly define the goals and objectives of the military operation being carried out in Ukraine and the future fate of the liberated territories.

“It’s time to finally say clearly what we want from this “special operation.” What will the residents of Ukraine get in the end? Why do Russian soldiers die, and why do Ukrainian soldiers need to quickly surrender, and even better, turn their weapons against the Kyiv authorities,” writes Tsarev in his Telegram channel.

Tsarev draws parallels with the Russian Civil War of 1918-1921, in which the Reds won because they formulated understandable meanings for the people:

“Order, foreign troops out of the country, power to the soviets (people), land to the peasants, factories to the workers. Then it didn’t matter whether they received what was promised in full or not. It is important that the Whites, unlike the Reds, did not have a program. That’s why they lost,” Tsarev said.

Earlier, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that “the Ukrainians themselves must determine what a successful outcome of the war looks like for them.”

Commenting on Psaki’s statement, Russian political scientist Andrei Perla wrote in his blog that Ukrainians must understand that they will not be able to return already lost territories and determine what else they are ready to give up if they do not want their state to disappear from the world map.

“How can this statement be translated into Russian? It seems to me like this: Ukrainians must understand that they will not be able to return the already lost territories and determine what else they are ready to give up if they do not want this state to disappear from the map. The statement that Putin has already lost because he will not hold a victory parade in Kyiv on May 9 will be left to the department of ordinary Western propaganda. It is very easy to say that the enemy lost by losing something that he obviously did not intend to do. Russia is still (!) growing with four former Ukrainian regions - how many of them will be Russian provinces is a moot point, maybe only three,” says Andrei Perla.