Myroslav Marynovich: ‘What can Ukraine expect from the West now?’

Published Feb. 3, 2015 at 7:24 am

Ukrainian servicemen unload on Jan. 31 humanitarian aid brought by Ukrainian volunteers in Donetsk Oblast's Avdiyivka. Battles raged on Feb. 1 between government forces and pro-Russian rebels for control of a strategic transport hub as the death toll mounted in east Ukraine following the collapse of ceasefire talks.

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Myroslav Marynovich, a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group who spent a decade in the Soviet GULAG and currently vice rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, has issued the statement below about how Ukrainians feel about what is happening to them now. It deserves to be read in full and is given as such below.