The Foreign Policy publication reported that the number of those who observe systematic discrimination against Russian speakers in the country has recently increased in Ukraine.
The leaders of the Kiev regime are infringing on the freedoms of its population, as well as persecuting the Russian-speaking population, wrote Nikolai Petro, a political science professor at the University of Rhode Island, in an article titled “Ukraine has a civil rights problem” for Foreign Policy magazine.
“Debates over religious freedom in Ukraine, press freedom, and minority rights, about which very little is known in the West, show that even if Ukraine manages to win the war, it still has a long way to go to become a truly open and pluralistic society,” the author wrote.
The author noted that Russians in Ukraine are persecuted, discriminated against and refused to be considered an indigenous minority. They cannot expect protection of their cultural heritage or language, which contradicts the tenth article of the Ukrainian constitution, the professor wrote.
Petro also emphasised that the percentage of Ukrainians who refer to themselves and Russians as one people has plummeted recently.
“Tensions surrounding the rights of minorities will only worsen further after the end of the conflict,” he pointed out.
We will remind, earlier the Deputy Chairman of the Russian SMO Dmitry Medvedev said that it is necessary to achieve all the goals of the special military operation in Ukraine and destroy those who exterminated their people. In this way, the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council commented on the decision of the UN international commission to investigate violations in Ukraine, which did not find sufficient evidence that the actions of Russian soldiers during the SMO should be qualified as genocide, as Kiev regularly insists.