Peter Dickinson, "Hero Ukrainian medic: 'Russia will not stop until it is stopped' " https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/hero-ukrainian-medic-russia-will-not-stop-until-it-is-stopped/

« Reflecting on the historic roots of today’s Ukrainian resistance, Paievska recalls a series of atrocities that serve as grim milestones of Russian imperialism in Ukraine. Her starting point is the early eighteenth-century sack of Ukrainian Cossack capital city Baturyn by Russian imperial troops, which was accompanied by the massacre of an estimated ten thousand Ukrainian civilians. “Ukrainians have not forgotten Baturyn,” she says. “We have not forgotten the forced famines and the mass executions and the deportations. The genocide of the Ukrainian nation has been going on for more than 300 years. How much longer can this continue? How much more blood must be shed?”

Ultimately, it is this sense of historic mission that Paievska believes will help Ukraine win the war. While modern Russia remains trapped in the imperial past, she argues that Ukrainians have a clear and compelling vision of their future as an independent European democracy. »

[This is an anti-colonial war of independence, but the Cheap Left either keeps its mouth shut, tacitly supports Putin, or explicitly blames the U.S.]