In connection with the open aggression of Putin's Russia against Ukraine and the entire Free World On February 24, 2022, the world woke up in a new reality, about the danger of which the participants of the Free Russia Forum had been warning for many years. This is a reality in which Vladimir Putin is no longer one of many tolerant dictators who are unpleasant but necessary to deal with, but the main threat to both Ukraine and the entire civilized world.

"Death to the Kremlin occupiers": action on Tverskaya. May 2013. Photo: Grani.ru Putin's regime committed a monstrous crime against humanity. He began an unprovided large -scale war against the peaceful European state - Ukraine. Its goal is not reduced to the enslavement of a forty -found neighboring people. Its goal is the destruction of the international order based on the power of law, and the approval of such an international order that will be based on the right of power.

Russian prisoners. Photo published by Anton Gerashchenko The Russian invasion began with missile strikes in Ukrainian cities. The aggressor bombing strategic objects throughout Ukraine and leads a ground offensive in several directions, meeting stubborn resistance. Russian troops captured the cities of Genichesk and New Kakhovka in the Kherson region. According to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, on February 24, 57 Ukrainians were killed as a result of Russian invasion, 169 were injured.

Just in those days when Russian troops were concentrating near the borders of Ukraine, preparing to attack our country, I read the post-war diaries of the brilliant German writer Ernst Junger. Actually, these are post-war diaries for me. For Jünger, a hero of the First World War and participant in the Second, one of Hitler's favorite authors and a fan of National Socialist ideas for several decades, these were the years of the occupation.

Russia launched a full-scale war against Ukraine. Since morning, it has been inflicting missile and air strikes on Ukrainian cities. The ground operation began immediately in three directions: from the north, from the Crimean side and in the Donbass. At night, Vladimir Putin announced the launch of a "special military operation" against Ukraine to "protect people from genocide." Explosions are heard near Kiev near the Boryspil airport, in Odessa, Kharkov, Kramatorsk, Donetsk region.

Valeria Novodvorskaya. 2014. Photo: Grani.ru There is no Russia from today. There is a mafia -terrorist group and 145 million people, some of which are hostages who wish to defeat their government. The rest are accomplices. The whole complex of diplomatic and economic relations with the so -called Russia is falling. The West also ceases to exist in its current form - he will have emergency rehabilitation after 20 years of criminal connivance.