No war is won in the long term when it is so blatantly violated, not just international law, but primarily the moral order, said the President of the Republic, among other things.
“This war doesn’t just destroy people, it doesn’t just destroy infrastructure. It brutally attacks the country’s culture and tradition.” This is emphasized by the President of the Republic in her Facebook post today, Katerina Sakellaropoulouon the occasion of her visit to the regions of Ukraine affected by the Russian bombings, Borodyanka, Butsa and Kyiv.
“The signs from the bullets of Russian soldiers at the base of the statue of Ukraine’s national poet Taras Shevchenko, in Borodyanka, is just one example of this hatred of the other’s culture. And up close, the destroyed houses where one can distinguish the luxuries of popular elegance among the ruins, the demolished theaters, the historical landmarks of the cities”. But the Ukrainians are sure that they will rebuild, better than before. They are not just optimistic about victory, they are convinced that the enemy has already been defeated. Because they know that no war is won in the long run when it is so blatantly violated, not just the international lawbut primarily the moral order,” said the President of the Republic, among other things.
The President of the Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou wrote characteristically:
“In a visit to war-torn Ukraine, however brief, one encounters the essence of concepts such as patriotism, bravery, empathy, resilience, humanity. Because under the heavy, leaden sky that welcomed us, among collapsed buildings, decapitated statues, gutted houses and, worst of all, mass graves, the heart of a heroic people beats rough and undaunted. One feels it in every step. He sees it in the serious but peaceful faces of the people, in the angry look of President Zelensky. He sees it in their words, in their steadfastness, in the stubbornness with which they continue to fight, transforming their pain and fear into the estrus of life. In the pride with which they take on war in their daily life, not to tame it – how to tame the unimaginable barbarity unleashed against them? – not to endure him – because they do – but to pin him down in memory, as a tragic as well as a glorious moment in their history. They commemorate him with indescribable reverence for their dead – every piece of land watered with blood becomes an altar of thanksgiving. They expose him in all his ferocity.
In the exhibition with the photos of horribly tortured civilians hosted by the church of Saint Andrew in martyred Butsa, one feels that mourning becomes for Ukrainians a mental and spiritual upliftment, a national upheaval. At the Wall of Remembrance of the Fallen Fighters from 2014, in Kyiv, he knows that there will not be a single day of flowers missing, because those who survive will honor, even if bombs are falling around, these twenty-year-old soldiers who were lost so early. In the exhibition “Ukraine – the crucifixion”, the visitor is seized with a shudder in front of the evidence of the war, accessories, uniforms, armor, letters, personal belongings. And in the National Museum of History, where the memory of the four hundred murdered children from Mariupol and other Ukrainian cities is commemorated, in front of the rows of their toys, witnesses of their unjustified sacrifice, the stirring of sadness is felt even more acutely. Our small offering, three dolls in our national costumes, remain there, among their bears and bunnies, like a gratuitous gift to the innocence swept away by the brutal invader.
But this war does not only destroy people, it does not only destroy infrastructure. It also brutally attacks the country’s culture and tradition. The bullet marks of the Russian soldiers at the base of the statue of the national poet of Ukraine Taras Shevchenko, in Borodyanka, are just one example of this hatred of the other’s culture. And up close, the destroyed houses where one can distinguish the luxuries of popular elegance among the ruins, the demolished theaters, the historical landmarks of the cities. But the Ukrainians are sure that they will rebuild, better than before. They are not just optimistic about victory, they are convinced that the enemy has already been defeated. Because they know that no war is won in the long run when it so blatantly violates not just international law, but above all the moral order.”
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