President: The Kremlin forces information war on us to enslave our mind

22/08/2018

"I want to emphasize that the modern war takes place not only on the frontline. Now everyone has studied the term "hybrid war". The Kremlin forces information war on us to enslave our mind," President Petro Poroshenko said at the International Forum of Volunteers and Veterans "Ukraine is where we are".

"When Putin hangs the blame on somebody else it can still be understood. But I, as President, am shocked with another fact: how many Putin’s lawyers our political elite has. How they try to relieve him of responsibility for the war and hang this responsibility on Ukraine. Some politicians are so blinded by the internal struggle that they thoughtlessly, sometimes even deliberately, duplicate dangerous stamps of Russian propaganda," Petro Poroshenko said.

The Head of State added: "Perhaps they think that they are fighting for power. Actually, no. I firmly believe that they work for the aggressor, they try to undermine the moral spirit of Ukrainians, they try to weaken the will to resistance, most importantly - they strike at the rear, stab in the back of the Armed Forces, devalue the feat of Ukrainian soldiers in the name of Ukraine" .

According to him, there are people of different political views among the three hundred and fifty thousand combatants and this is an objective cross-section of society.

"But I firmly believe that we share the main opinion. All of us, from a soldier to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, know that the present Russian-Ukrainian war is a real war for the independence of our state. Russian troops are on our land. We must liberate the Ukrainian land from them, liberate Ukrainians in the occupied lands. None of us has any doubt that Russia started this war. And that in this war, we defend our values, our freedom, our right to choose the future development of our state. And we have chosen this direction, this is a European direction, a European choice," Petro Poroshenko emphasized.

According to the President, presidential, parliamentary and local elections are a guarantee that we will not have a revenge and there will be no return to the Russian empire.

"Our unity in this issue is extremely important to us, because you are more trustworthy than politicians. Because you defended the country with sweat and blood in trenches, not with your tongue and saliva on TV screens. And respecting the individual political views of each of you, I call nevertheless for the nonpartisanship of the veteran movement," the Head of State appealed to the participants of the forum. 

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