Many people want to destroy Russia more than they want to save Ukraine: that was Julija Mendel's message to MEPs at the European Parliament. She was Zelensky's press secretary for two years.
Her argument: a third of Ukraine has become hell, nearly 20% occupied and another 10% a burning front, and that daily suffering is weighed against a grand idea, Russia's collapse, whose price is her country. Then the numbers. Echoing JD Vance's essay that the maths in Ukraine doesn't add up, she asks how 25 million Ukrainians, half of them pensioners, are meant to defend 500 million Europeans against 140 million Russians. By her figures the population has fallen from over 52 million to around 25 million, with deaths running three to four times births. Simple maths, she says, showing a country disappearing.
The figures are hers. A 3-minute excerpt from a 36-minute speech, German voice-over (my summary, check it against the clip). Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VBSPHFtzG4
#ukraine #peace #europe
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