2024.3.24.

Three years have passed since Russia launched a special military operation against Ukraine to counter the U.S. and the West seriously threatening its security leverage.

According to the recent data available, in a little more than two years after the start of the special military operation Ukraine lost 444 000 troops and its economic scale decreased by 30 percent with loss of 3.5 million jobs. And about 10 million Ukrainians fled abroad to evade enlistment, etc.

Meanwhile, the prospect of aid to Ukraine is getting bleak with each passing day and conflict and rift growing serious as NATO member states have felt extreme fatigue in Ukraine, though they had talked big about Russia’s “strategic defeat” while pouring huge amounts of weapons and funds into the Ukraine under the instigation of the U.S.

The West, including more than 30 NATO member states, has supplied astronomical amounts of weapons and funds to the battlefields under the baton of the U.S., the chieftain of aggression, interference, destruction and plunder, but this is like throwing water on thirsty soil.

World public opinion is now commenting that Ukraine became one of the poorest countries in Europe and a country which lost independence.

Ukraine, bordered on Russia on the west, declared its independence in 1991. At that time, it was a country with the territory of over 600 000 ㎢, fertile land and abundant natural resources.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. emerged the "only superpower in the world" and began to stretch out its tentacles of undisguised interference to Ukraine so as to “enslave” it as a whole. It had worked hard to establish a pro-American and pro-Western government with stooges who were educated in the West and vowed to submit to the interests of the U.S.

As soon as a pro-American regime was established in Ukraine in February 2014 with the change of state made under the manipulation of the U.S. and the West as an opportunity, the U.S. instigated the puppet regime of Kiev to kick up a frantic campaign for joining NATO. Meanwhile, it had systematically increased the threat of war by massing huge aggression armed forces in the NATO satellite countries situated on the western border of Russia.

As a result, the relations between Russia and Ukraine, which had closely cooperated with each other within one state formerly called the Soviet Union, was reduced into an uncompromising confrontation and conflict relationship due to the persistent anti-Russia moves of the U.S. and the West.

Russia could never allow the U.S.-led NATO aggression armed forces to be deployed in the region straight before Moscow through the entry of Ukraine to NATO but was entitled to launch a special military operation against Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

Political analysts are claiming that the tragedy in Ukraine is attributable to the U.S. policy of hegemony and the reckless policy of the Western rulers on toeing the U.S. line that had incited Ukraine to stand face to face with Russia.

However, there is a more important reason.

The reality clearly shows that it is more attributable to the present Ukrainian regime’s policy of worship and flunkeyism towards the U.S. and of dependence on foreign forces.

As soon as the conflict was broken out, the puppet group of Zelenskiy, who were tamed by the U.S. as neo-Nazis, visited the U.S. and NATO member states to beg for their military and financial aid.

The U.S. drove NATO and other Western countries following it to full support for Ukraine as if it met a good time while dispatching its military advisers to the Kiev authorities and providing them with huge amount of war equipment and funds. On the other hand, it tried to destroy the Russia’s economy and stifle the Russian people by intensifying the all-round sanctions, pressure and blockade against Russia as never before.

According to statistics, the U.S. and the West had imposed the largest-ever sanctions on Russia over the past two years. As of November 2023, the number of sanctions reached 17 500.

But such sanctions did not change the situation on the battlefield. On contrary to it, they gave Russia a chance of self-sufficiency by boosted domestic production, far from stifling Russia’s economy.

Last year the growth rate of Russia’s GDP was 3.6 percent, which is higher than the worldwide average index, but the debts of Ukraine amounted to 145 320 million U.S. dollars, breaking its record in history.

The Zelenskiy group, despaired at its repeated defeats, has visited the U.S. and other Western countries to beg for more funds, missiles, tanks and shells.

Many Ukrainians are shedding vain blood as victims of the anti-Russia hysterics of the pro-American puppet regime and as cannon fodder of the U.S. and the West.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the U.S. and the West have inveigled Ukraine to inflicting "strategic defeat" on Russia, and as a result, Ukraine, which inherited rich industrial potential from the Soviet Union, became the poorest state and ruins in Europe and the Kiev authorities became an "international beggar" recognized by all.

The German newspaper Die Welt contended that Russia will surely win a military victory as well as a political victory in the conflict, adding that time is passing in favor of Russia with huge resources and human potential.

The Russian government resolutely clarified its stand not to stop the special military operation for protecting the compatriots in the Donbas area, who had been the targets of the Kiev authorities’ persecution and killing, and realizing the disarmament and non-Nazism in Ukraine.

The present Ukrainian situation goes to clearly prove how foolish and self-destructive the illusion about the U.S. and the West is

The Kiev puppet regime caused a disastrous tragedy of spoiling its country and nation with its anachronistic worship and flunkeyism towards the U.S. and dependence on foreign forces

The Ukrainian crisis tells once again the truth that the illusion about the U.S. and the West is self-destruction and ruin.

Rodong Sinmun