Dmytro Bintsarovskyi

Volodymyr Mykolayenko, the Kherson mayor seized by Russians in 2022…. just look at him after over three years in captivity. He was released today and he’s congratulating his beloved city free from the occupiers on the Independence Day. Just unbelievable what Russia does to our people.

What's especially beautiful is that this moneybag who could never point Ukraine out on a map is now telling me, a guy from Donbas, and my community that we are actually ethnic Russians and want to go with Russia. There's not a single drop of intellectual humility or sticking to the fact the world could not be that simplistic. Maybe it's that you have no idea what you're talking about? And that the vast majority of "ethnic" Russians" (who actually identify themselves as Russian-speaking Ukrainians) don't want to have anything in common with Putin's totalitarian hellhole, especially following terrible devastation that Russia brought upon Ukraine's south and east, where it swept off entire cities and regions? Maybe it's that, especially given the catastrophe of 2022, even more eastern Ukrainians chose Ukraine and the West, so that's why they fled the war to settle down in other parts of Ukraine or in Europe? Or maybe this is why a very large part of the Ukrainian military at war is the people of Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Dnipro, Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Kherson, who hate Russia and fight it fiercely, knowing what it has done to their homeland and their own families? How many men and women of Mariupol fight to have their revenge and defend the country from the plague of Russian fascism, next to the ones who lost their loved ones in Russian missile attacks on Lviv? How many so-called "ethnic Russians" who have always identified themselves as Ukrainians now stay in free Ukraine, work jobs, pay taxes, run charities, send donations to buy drones, and take care of disabled veterans? How many want to live in freedom, dignity, democracy, and pursuit of happiness, too? But you know, David Sacks, in his infinite arrogance and ignorance, thinks he knows better.