A gift from #Ireland🇮🇪 to #Ukraine🇺🇦.
We know the price of #Nationhood
The difficulty of emerging from the threat of swift and terrible war from our former overlords.
The birth of a nation and the creation of a people all too often are birthed in blood.
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They think that they have pacified #Ukraine.
They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half.
They think that they have foreseen everything, think that they have provided against everything;
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but the fools, the fools, the fools! - they have left us our Ukrainian dead, and while Ukraine holds these graves,
Ukraine unfree shall never be at peace.
May your dead be the monument to your #Freedom.
They pay the price for the prize you treasure. #IrelandSupportUkraine
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#Russia has invaded Sovereign #Ukraine.
Russia along with the big 5 gave Ukraine, #Belarus and #Kazakhstan explicit guarantee to respect their Sovereignty and territories as part of #Budapest memorandum in return for giving up their #nukes.
#Putin claimed that "promises" were made and broken regarding #NATO expansion?
Yet #Gorbachev has said many times that no such promise was given
Who should we believe?
The Ethno-nationalist?
Or the Nobel prize winner?
Russia breached this accord with its original 2014 invasion.
The actions of Russia in its pursuit of Crimea and making #Azov a russian lake have led to creating and supporting continued insurgency in eastern Ukraine.
The claim of Putin to be entering Ukraine as a #peacekeeper?
As a guardian of Russian speakers?