Kremlin does not want USSR 2.0 but Bucha on whole Ukraine scale - Security chief

Photo: NSDC Secretary Oleksandr Lytvynenko (Getty Images)

Ukraine should have enough financial, human, and material resources to protect the country from destruction, according to National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Lytvynenko.

“It is important to realize that Ukrainian troops are fighting today not only for Crimea or Donbas. They are primarily fighting for Kyiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Vinnytsia, and Lviv. For our cities not to turn into Bakhmut, Avdiivka, or Robotyne, which have been wiped off the map,” he says.

He is convinced that “the Russians are not planning USSR 2.0 but a Bucha on the scale of the whole of Ukraine.”

“And Russian arrival means the death of hundreds of thousands and the suffering of millions. It is about physical survival. I am convinced that Ukraine cannot fail to win because we have no other chance but to ensure our survival as a free, independent state with development opportunities,” adds the NSDC Secretary.

Lytvynenko also notes that it is impossible to return to the situation before February 24, 2022. “We have a different country, with a completely different experience, a completely different economy, a different society. The terrible trauma and catastrophe inflicted on us by the Russians is hardening the new Ukraine. We will never live the way we used to,” he says.