Why has Russia attacked Ukraine? Everything To know;- Why has Putin attacked Ukraine? “We are on the defensive against an attack from Russia for our right of existence and to live.” “Ukraine has its own country, Ukraine is not Russia,” Lesia Vasylenko (Ukraine Member of Parliament), said to Marc Lamont Hill, Kyiv.
Why has Russia attacked Ukraine?
Vasylenko said that she is, like many Ukrainians, preparing for the worst as Russia’s assault on Ukraine continues.
“I learned over these eight years to trust in the good and be prepared for the bad, just like many Ukrainians.” To be fair, you can’t prepare for war with the third-biggest military force in the world, and the largest military power Europe has to offer.
Why has Putin attacked Ukraine?
Vasylenko believes that it is clear that Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t want an independent Ukraine. She said that Putin wants Ukraine to be part of Russia, and added that Russia’s leader has a master plan to wipe out an independent Ukraine from the face of the Earth.
Marc Lamont Hill talks to Lesia Vasylenko, a Ukrainian MP, about why she thinks President Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine and whether the international community has done enough to help Ukraine.