UGCC head: Ukraine is clearly winning in the war with Russia

Shevchuk believes that Ukraine has already won since it has preserved its statehood. Photo: Zhyve Telebachennia

Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the UGCC, assured that Ukraine is clearly winning the war with Russia because it has survived as a state.

“You know, the very fact that if it comes to a meeting between our president and the ruler of Russia, then by the very fact of that meeting it will be acknowledged that there is someone to meet with. Russia has achieved none of the goals of its so-called special military operation in Ukraine. So, whichever way you look at it, we are winning. We are winning precisely by the fact that we exist,” Shevchuk explained somewhat confusingly.

He stressed that today “even a taxi driver in New York knows that Ukraine is a separate state, and Ukrainians are a separate, large, multimillion nation.” And this, he said, can already be considered Ukraine’s victory.

Commenting on negotiations in Washington, Shevchuk said he disagreed when world leaders suggest stopping the war in Ukraine by handing over part of Ukrainian territory to Russia.

“We want the mighty of this world, who are shaping today’s geopolitics, not to fall into the categories of Russian propaganda, which says there is no Ukraine, no Ukrainian people, no Ukrainian Kyiv, only territories. ‘Let’s divide the territories, and there will be no war.’” Shevchuk said.

According to him, in the territories whose loss world leaders are discussing as conditions for ending the war (according to the media, referring to Donbas), “people have their own language, their own culture, their own history, their own church,” and Shevchuk fears that they “will fall into slavery.”

Earlier, the UOJ reported that the UGCC supported protests against the government.

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