“After the massacre of Bucha and dozens of countries, Ukrainian society is furious because we have seen the true colors of Russian soldiers, looters and murderers. There is a very strong fighting spirit, and even if Zelenskyy should compromise society, Ukraine is not ready to welcome them, they want to fight.” numerous foreign newspapers, including the Economist, Newsweek and Al Jazeera, in an interview with AdnKronos.
Yermolenko is clear on Bucha’s controversial events: “International journalists entered Bucha and it was they who disseminated the images. Of course, Russian propaganda says it’s a staging and one could believe it if it weren’t just now. They also spread video images like graves in gardens and other things that give an idea of what they are capable of. We have countless testimonies from people who managed to leave the country and who told how Russian soldiers threatened them, and we also have satellite images.”
For the philosopher, “It should be noted that this is only Bucha, but there are dozens of countries that have the same situation. How can we imagine that it was always the Ukrainian army that caused these deaths? It seems absurd to me. Ukrainian society carries a great burden on its back and will not accept other occupied countries. Yermolenko, born in Brovary, married and father of three children, had to move west to protect himself from the bombing, but “I come and I’m from Kyiv, where I help physically and materially with humanitarian aid, and with my wife we are very active on the ‘information’, he explains.
On the ongoing conflict, Yermolenko AdnKronos gives a very clear analysis: “Russia feels like a wounded empire, and this is not happening for the first time he observes like any wounded empire, Russia too does not see the future but lives in the past and lives from the myths of the past, and it is very important to them to recreate that time, the time of Stalinism, what is happening in Russian society: power is no longer autocratic but totalitarian and must not be lost him, the possibility of him to win back, they see in conquering Ukraine.
“For a long time, Ukrainians lived under the illusion of being one people with Russia. But that’s nonsense: any difference with Russia, Russia emphasizes that as ‘National Socialism’. The rhetoric of Nazism in Ukraine is absurd. The president is of Jewish origin,” Yermolenko demands. For those who say “Ukraine is a democratic country, there is nothing to ‘denazify’: imagine someone wanting ‘deItalianization’ in Italy ‘ carry out …”.
That “of course doesn’t mean that the problem of rightwing extremists doesn’t exist,” explains the journalist, “but they are present as in every country, and in the last elections they didn’t even get 2 percent and didn’t get into parliament. In Germany itself, rightwing extremist parties sit in parliament, this ultraradicalism is not as present here as in other countries.