What kind of Ukraine are we moving towards?
Migrants in Ukraine. Photo: open sources
One of the media clerics of the UGCC and one of its de facto spokesmen, Justin Boyko, criticized the mass importation of labor migrants to Ukraine on television. He emphasized that people of "different culture, different mentality, different spirituality" are coming to us, and "in the long term this threatens an ideological conflict."
And at first glance, Boyko is saying everything correctly: foreign migrants are alien to us, and Ukrainians should be the first to live and work in Ukraine. But at the same time, both Boyko himself and the UGCC leadership persistently call for a "just peace," which in practice means supporting the continuation of the war. And each new day of hostilities brings the same thing: new mobilizations, new fallen soldiers, new victims among the civilian population, and an ever-growing reluctance of Ukrainians who left for the EU to return home.
The authorities are already saying directly that the demographic situation in Ukraine is catastrophic, that there is no one to work even now. That we are rapidly dying out and that we have no other path but to import foreigners by the millions. The head of the Migration Policy Office, Voskoboynik, openly states that in the future Ukrainians may become mixed-race. VSU officer Denis Yaroslavsky claims that in 30 years there will be six migrant children for every one Ukrainian schoolchild.
Today every state event begins and ends with the slogans "Glory to Ukraine" and "Glory to the nation." But what Ukraine are we moving toward? What nation will be here tomorrow? And will it believe in Christ?
The only hope is for immediate peace. On what exact terms – that is a question for politicians. But if the same Greek Catholics truly love Ukraine as much as they say, they should call for an immediate end to the war. Otherwise, they risk one day discovering that the country they supposedly care for has changed beyond recognition – and there will be no one left to protect and instruct in the faith. And "Glory to the nation" will sound over a land where almost nothing remains of the former nation.
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