Thread by @lesiavasylenko

To those still believing that the killing of Ukrainians may be stopped by #Ukraine giving up territory to #Russia: this will bring more war, more devastation and more deaths 🧵/1

Territory is not empty fields or woodland. It’s places where Ukrainian people live. Giving up territory = betrayal of Ukrainians who want to remain Ukrainian in a Ukrainian Ukraine /2

Ceding territory will cause unrest in #Ukraine: people will be separated from friends and family. People will feel abandoned and discriminated /3

Ceding territory = death warrants to all those Ukrainians that resisted #Russia’s aggression and occupation. And that would be a crime in itself /4

Dismemberment of #Ukraine will weaken Europe’s security framework and will be the sacrifice of democracy /5

#Crimea and #Donetsk and #Luhansk regions have been annexed and occupied for 8 years and that didn’t stop #putin escalating his aggression against #Ukraine /6

Ceding territory might yield a short-term ceasefire. Or not. But it will definitely lead to yet another war in the relatively near future. Unpunished, #Russia will try to grab more land in due time /7

Appeasement doesn’t work with aggressors. Hitler 1938 proved it. #putin 2014/2022 proved it again. So why continue play this game? /8

#Ukraine learns from its mistakes. The world should learn too. The option of willingly negotiating peace in exchange for territory was never on the table. So let’s stop implying and trying to discuss this as a solution. /END