Gas entrepreneur Yulia Tymoshenko, former Prime Minister of Ukraine and protagonist of the Orange Revolution, says in an interview with Repubblica today that Vladimir Putin will conquer all of Ukraine and later turn his eyes even further west: “He wants to go back to the old borders, not those of the Soviet Union, but those of the Russian Empire. He wants to increase the territory, Ukraine is only the first step. It wants to own and control a significant part of what we call the United States of Europe. In the future it could become a prison for these nations. I know other countries don’t think the same thing can happen to them. But there is a lesson from the past: we didn’t know what was happening to Georgia. So you must learn it immediately. And I remind everyone that before the war Putin said that NATO’s borders had to go back to those of 1997, especially for the Baltic States, ie Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. A real blackmail ».
For Tymoshenko, speaking with Brunella Giovara, “the European countries in the east, the central ones and the Baltic States are in danger. The other NATO countries are being forced into a global war. That’s why I say this war affects the whole West. Putin has other goals, the war will spread». And that’s because the tsar is “a barbarian.” I will explain why: Starting a war against a peaceful, democratic and European country like Ukraine is a confirmation of its barbaric nature. He encouraged the elimination of the elderly, women, children. There is no other way to describe that than with the word: barbarian. And fascist. Someone thinks they’re crazy, I don’t think so. He has a cold, rational, cynical mind. And behind his behavior there is like a dark core, something that comes from the darkest Middle Ages».
