Thread by @clauswknudsen

From the Danish newspaper 'Politiken'

Translated by google from Danish.
Russian citizens, Russian friends,

In the dark days of war, you are all innocent victims of Vladimir Putin's concealments and lies. Your own president has made it a criminal offense for the Russian press to talk about a Russian invasion of Ukraine, although of course that is the truth.

Putin describes the Ukrainian government as neo-Nazis,
although of course that is a lie. He has made the truth about the war sound to you like a lie.

Hence this enlightening appeal from a free and independent newspaper in Denmark to the Russian people.

From friend to friend, we lament that Europe has once again been hit by a devastating war. That we are all again hit by war. In war, all are losers, even the winner.
Both you and we know that. We all know that the Russian people are not our enemy. This is your president.

WE NEVER FORGET the huge sacrifices and efforts of the Soviet people to win World War II. Without your heroism, the world of today would have stood in a completely different place, a much darker place.

Ukraine.

With lies and deception, he has tried to portray the invasion as a defense of Russia and its traditional values.
The truth is the opposite: Ukraine does not commit genocide on either Russians or Ukrainians.

The Ukrainian government is not Nazis, but on the contrary elected democrats. And no matter how much President Putin claims it, neither the West nor NATO has any desire to attack Russia.

THE SANCTIONS now isolating and impoverishing Russia
will make life difficult for you.

The goal is not to hit the Russians, but to help Ukraine and its people. The open hand of the West remains extended to the east. Also against Russia.

We say no to President Putin's bloody aggression. We say yes to Russia and the people who do not deserve Putin and his murderous and despotic autocracy.

And as a Danish newspaper, we first and foremost say yes to real and honest information about the disgusting war your president has thrown Ukraine and the rest of Europe into.

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