“We really need the West to take decisive action while there is still this small window of opportunity to prevent aggression,” says former Maidan activist Olena Halushka
with a verse by Ukrainian poet Vasyl Symonenko: "There is no more room for graves at the cemetery of killed illusions."
“The scariest part was watching it on TV,” she recalls. “When you sit there and watch it, every minute people are running, crying, people are being hurt and killed.”‘Pushed away for generations’ Russia’s invasion of Crimea later that year, as well as the seizing of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, an area known as Donbas, by Russian-backed separatists, further alienated Ukrainians from Russia.The ongoing war in the Donbas is estimated to have killedSeveral polls including those conducted by the Democratic Initiative Foundation have indicated growing support for Ukraine’s possible accession to NATO and the EU in the last decade.
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