> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://aontachtmedia.ie/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Real Ukrainians In Kiev Protesting Zelensky, “Professional Ukrainians” In Dublin Want Sanctions - URL: https://aontachtmedia.ie/real-ukrainians-in-kiev-protesting-zelensky-professional-ukrainians-in-dublin-want-sanctions/ - Published: 2026-10-26T17:28:30.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-26T23:19:20.000Z - Description: Are you on the side of those Ukrainians who are critical of the Zelensky regime and will face legal consequences if forced back? Or are you siding with professional Ukrainians and NGOs receiving 200,000 euros of Irish taxpayers’ money to push war propaganda? - Author: Ilya Ulyanov - Tags: Critical Analysis Two protests of Ukrainians occurred in the same week in two different places earlier this month. One was held in Kiev and another in Dublin. They were held by two different groups of Ukrainians of different social and regional backgrounds. They represent two Ukraines. The real, exhausted and drained-of-blood Ukraine and the artificial, “professional”, well-fed Ukraine, enjoying Western funding abroad and the status quo at home. It represents the Ukraine of oppressors and the Ukraine of the oppressed. You must decide with which Ukraine you are standing. **KIEV PROTESTING ZELENSKY REGIME** The first protest occurred in the country located at the very bottom position in the system of European imperialism, being not a formal part, but the “shield” of the EU, “obligated” to defend its colonial master from his imaginary threats until the last native. It occurs in the country in the fifth year of the notorious class-based busification and closed borders for most males. In the state which openly wants to become a “Second Israel” \[1\] and is sentencing socialists to 15 years for critical articles \[2\] and pensioners to 5 years for posting 9 of May Day of Victory symbols on social media \[3\]. In the state with 169-euro monthly salaries and 60- euro pensions \[4\]. In the state of 2 Azov army Corps and state glorification of WW2 nazi criminals such as Melnyk, Shukhevych and Bandera. The group of very brave people protested the war until the last Ukrainian on the central Maidan square in Kiev on the 3rd of October. They were mostly women, as most working-class men are hiding from busification and are deprived by the EU proxy regime of political agency. The demands of the protesters were formulated in a very vague way so as not to be repressed. As the Bogdan Syrotuik case shows, even critical questioning of the 2014 Kiev operation against Donbass, which started almost 13 years ago, leads to criminal charges in Brussels-controlled Ukraine. It is also legally impossible to question the territorial integrity mantra, that is the main obstacle to a peace settlement. By reproducing this delusional, cursed mantra, the proxy regime and its supporters on the Western Performative Left are promoting the continuation of the war with the final goal of the “punishment of Donbass traitors”. The territorial integrity mantra is the most explicit justification of ongoing busification, which has already taken so many working-class lives. This mantra, appealing to emotions and promoting “revenge” and revanchism over the lost 2014 civil war, is the most dangerous tool of the comprador bourgeoisie and the Western colonial administration in Kiev, as it feeds the hatred of the working class of the territories of former Ukraine towards each other. It substitutes the class interest of the Ukrainian working class with the interest of expanding Western imperialism’s territorial zone on the regions that never lived under post-Maidan regime and don’t want to live. For these reasons, the protesters held vague posters, like “We demand peace”, “We want to live”, “Stop the war. Only peace”. The message is clear – Ukrainians are not so stupid, as you may think in the West, as to consciously commit national suicide for Donbass and Crimea, given the open secret that the majority of their population do not want to return under Kiev rule. They are simply forced to suicide – by you, the Europeans! ![](https://aontachtmedia.ie/content/images/2026/10/data-src-image-b38d1ce5-61c5-4c77-9ce7-38936b85e309.jpeg) Picture 1\. Woman holding poster: “NO to Ze regime. NO to repressions. NO to corruption. NO to the TCC gangs. NO to busification. People are not a ‘resource’. NO TO WAR!” As expected, there is no BBC or RTE coverage of brave Ukrainians protesting the war under the Zelensky dictatorship. Western media is too busy with more important stories. For instance, about Russian spies leaving faeces in the homes of Finnish politicians as part of hybrid Putin warfare against Europe. \[5\] Meanwhile Maksym Zhorin, former Azov commander and the current deputy commander of the 3rd Army Corps of the notorious Biletsky, commented in his Telegram channel on the female peace protest as follows: “About a dozen mentally deficient individuals—whether paid by the Russian Federation or simply idiots—showed up at the Maidan today so that Russian media could scream about how ‘Kievans want peace.’ (...) Security services need to respond to this with maximum severity. Right now, it’s just a freak show, but if more money gets poured in, we could end up seeing attempts to block military vehicles—just like what happened in Crimea and the Donbas in 2014” Indeed, in 2014 the Donbass working-class population en masse perceived Kiev’s military operation as an intervention and engaged in peaceful sabotage actions, for instance, blocking the routes of Ukrainian army columns. Please note that the Ukrainian army at the beginning of the civil war was neither passionate about fighting its own population and was often happy to be blocked so as not to carry out the criminal orders of Turchynov’s illegal government. That is the exact reason why the Kiev regime was forced to weaponise far-right fanatics like Zhorin, who have less compassion for civilians, believing they are fighting the Holy Racial War on behalf of European Civilisation against the “Asian ethnic Muscovites” and “Soviet working-class cattle” in Donbass. As expected, most public speakers of the Zelensky regime and the “Professional Ukrainians” who noticed the pro-peace protest traditionally appealed to state security and used personal insults and threats to participants. The official Centre of Countering Disinformation branded the grassroots protest as a malicious Russian operation. Straightforward wartime logic suggests identifying as traitors all of those who participate in “Russian operations” with subsequent punishment. Appeals to the state security repression apparatus are a common behavioural pattern of the empowered minority of Western servants, also known as “Ukrainian Civil Society”. This self proclaimed colonial structure, which substituted the pre-Maidan indigenous society, is used to discipline and punish any step in the “wrong” direction made by the majority of Ukrainians since the Maidan coup overtook power. The Ukrainian formula of Post-Maidan Civil Society is Neonazis and Banderites + Professional Ukrainians employed in West-funded NGOs. This mix of neoliberals and neonazis is supposed to speak on behalf of an entire impoverished nation living under dictatorship with closed borders and busification running inside. Ukrainian “pre-invasion” democracy, often contrasted with Russian autocracy in Western discourse as a justification of the war, has always been a spectacle. The last democratic times were under Yanukovich, as far as bourgeois democracy can be. Moreover, it was too democratic, as Nazis were allowed to exist and agitate freely, including at the parliamentary level. The destiny of democratic Yanukovich Ukraine is an eloquent illustration of Karl Popper’s “Paradox of Tolerance” concept. All that remained after Maidan, and the significantly shrunken democracy in Ukraine, all freedom of discussion, was always limited to the internal discussion of this “civil society”. Maidan, in fact, by forbidding the entire language, identity, regional and political groups from any agency over decision making, was a tremendous anti-democratic turn in Ukrainian politics. Now all the West-praised democracy and freedom of discussion in Ukraine is limited to the question of how to fight more efficiently until the last Ukrainian. ![](https://aontachtmedia.ie/content/images/2026/10/data-src-image-deb2518e-ee98-4be2-8b20-92c12ca37df4.jpeg) Picture 2\. EU-controlled Ukraine is democratic in the same way as the Italian Social Republic, known as the Republic of Salò, was social. It is no coincidence that the leadership of puppet Ukraine increasingly looks like the main characters of Pasolini’s movie “Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom”. As top-rank TV presenter Natalia Moseichuk infamously said back in 2024, addressing conscription critics: “The Security Service of Ukraine will knock on everyone’s door. It’s better not to say nonsense and not to say what harms the State.” **PROFESSIONAL UKRAINIANS DO NOT REPRESENT REFUGEES** The second protest was held in Dublin a couple of days after the Kiev pro-peace protest. It was held in “neutral” and “progressive” Ireland, which recently adopted the new EU rules for incoming Ukrainian refugees, under which they are obligated to show military documents to be eligible for protection! \[6\] In the country making Ukrainian single mothers homeless, Jim O’Callaghan boasts that cuts in supports are “not resulting in hardships” \[7\] \[8\]. In the country stripping Ukrainians in the new Citizenship bill of the years countable towards citizenship, regardless of work and integration done. \[9\] In the country where the Ukrainian embassy requires military documents from Ukrainian citizens to make an appointment to access any consular services! \[10\] What I am trying to say is that the Ukrainian community in Ireland has a lot of problems and genuinely lacks political representation, as all reaction to busification from Ireland so far has been limited to Paul Murphy TD and Richard Boyd Barrett TD \[11\] \[12\]. Most Ukrainians, who are the lowest-paid nationality in Ireland according to CSO data \[13\], live over the years in fear and uncertainty. The most vulnerable are already forced to return to Ukraine after state supports were been withdrawn, and the treatment of Ukrainian refugees as an undesirable population was reflected in the new Citizenship Bill. The Dublin protest was held by a small group of people working in “Ukrainian” NGOs, funded by Irish taxpayers, claiming to speak on behalf of the entire Ukrainian refugee community in Ireland that exceeds 85,000\. Moreover, they claim to represent and embody the entire nation, including those who are being busified in the country with closed borders, whose language is legally banned from the workplace and education, who are being or have been repressed for their beliefs or for hammer and sickle on social media. So, to which of the problems described above was the protest dedicated? Probably to the Citizenship bill proposal or to the new refugee “Busification from Ireland” rules? No. It was dedicated to... the necessity of more military supplies to the Kiev regime and more sanctions on Russia! Have you expected something else? ![](https://aontachtmedia.ie/content/images/2026/10/data-src-image-ffcb78c1-dfc9-42d9-9338-b50049f59b1e.jpeg) Picture 3\. Director of the taxpayer-funded Ukrainian Crisis Centre Ireland Baskin on his Dublin protest demanding more sanctions and less trade **OLESHKY: THE NEW FATWA OF ZELENSKY AND THE NEW MANTRA FOR MORE SANCTIONS** The protest uses the current humanitarian catastrophe in the town of Oleshky as a pretext for more EU-Russia hostilities. Indeed, Oleshky – the new fatwa, issued by Zelensky to all Professional Ukrainian devotees of the world in his desperate attempts to weaponize people’s suffering for causing more war supplies and subsequently more suffering. Thus, there are some low-number rallies across the Western world. These protests are full of Professional Ukrainian males above 18 who are eligible for military service but for some unknown reasons over the years have been hesitating to return into Ukraine and join the fight for the regime they actively support. Instead, they praise territorial integrity and working-class busification from a safe distance. Often being paid directly by your taxes. Ironically, Oleshky is located on the Russian-controlled territory of Kherson oblast, separated from Brussels-controlled Ukraine by the Dnieper River. That is the part which Professional Ukrainians prefer to conceal from the broader public so as to not allow dialectical questions to be raised. Clearly coincidentally, Oleshky catastrophe started shortly after Ukraine Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov [announced](https://english.nv.ua/amp/ukraine-chokes-russia-s-vital-land-bridge-to-crimea-with-a-massive-drone-swarm-50613254.html?ref=aontachtmedia.ie) a "Logistics lockdown” using middle-strike [drones](https://mezha.net/eng/news/e5a41a47%5Fukrainian%5Fdrones%5Fdisrupt/?ref=aontachtmedia.ie) from the May 27\. Highways on the Russian controlled territories becoming increasingly unsafe for any vehicles, risking to be burned down by numberless drones. For example, Alexander Kolotun, a father of 13, and his 15-year-old daughter, Anna, were [killed](https://vm.ru/news/1364455-otec-13-detej-i-ego-15-letnyaya-doch-pogibli-pri-udare-vsu-po-mashine-pod-hersonom/amp?ref=aontachtmedia.ie) when a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone struck their car near the village of Rykovo in the Genichesk District of the Kherson Region, deep inside Russian-controlled territory. This was reported on Wednesday, October 7, by the Russian region’s governor and citizen of Ukraine, Vladimir Saldo. Alexander Kolotun reportedly owned a bakery and used to supply near-frontline towns of the Kherson region with bread, including Oleshky. He was also a religious pastor and humanitarian aid volunteer. “They struck an ordinary passenger car 120 kilometers from the frontline,” [emphasized](https://www.miloserdie.ru/news/pogib-volonter-kotoryj-pek-i-privozil-hleb-zhitelyam-aleshek/amp/?ref=aontachtmedia.ie) Vladimir Saldo. The same drone hazards and subsequent supply problems are common for many Donbass towns. These precedents are being ignored by both Professional Ukrainians and Western media, as the dehumanisation of Donbass is taken for granted in Zelensky’s Ukraine and in the EU. Moreover, from the very beginning of the Civil War in 2014, Kiev made it a habit to frame any of its own military crimes committed on uncontrolled territory as “self-bombardments” done by Donbass “terrorists”. And the West made it a habit not to notice crimes on uncontrolled territories and not to challenge Kiev’s shameless lies. As experience shows, Ukraine’s logic reminds one of a totalitarian religious cult when it comes to people on the territories that have been lost. In the same way as a person leaving a totalitarian sect, the population of territories leaving Ukraine is ostracised and deprived of empathy and communication from the former community. The Donbass population was the first victim of the political cult of “Ukrainizm”, with collective responsibility logic applied during Kiev’s bombardments in 2014\. It was a matter of time before this logic was due to expand beyond the DPR and LPR. For instance, there was a patriotic fetishisation of Mariupol residents as “unbroken” in Kiev state propaganda during the siege in 2022\. Shortly after Azov heroically surrendered there was a re-evaluation of the whole Mariupol population as not loyal enough in the same state discourse. Finally, the notorious Lviv resident and former Svoboda MP Iryna Farion called, before being sent to Bandera, the destruction of Mariupol “karma” as it was still having a factory named after Lenin up until 2022\. Banderite regions, located on top of Kiev’s regime cultural hierarchy, unsurprisingly regard Eastern Russian-speaking regions as their own human shield. Some Mariupolans living in Ireland are even finding their own personal data leaked to the Myrotvorets state traitors database for evacuating from Mariupol “illegally”, through Russian territory and thus violating Kiev laws! Now the circle of “correct Ukrainians” narrows, as the Kiev regime is tottering. Kiev is now reminiscent of Berlin in 1944-45 mobilizing its last resources for the lost war, both in terms of human mobilization and mobilisation of propagandist capacities. And Oleshky falls victim to the same “utilitarian” logic of Ukrainian propaganda, aimed to maximise profits for the regime in Kiev, as “self-bombarding” Donbass back in 2014\. **MEET “PROFESSIONAL UKRAINIANS”** The organiser and speaker at the Oleshky protest – Michael (Mikhailo) Baskin. He is the founder of the Ukrainian NGO called Ukraine Crisis Centre Ireland (UCCI), that emerged in 2022, shortly after the Russian intervention into the pre-existing Ukrainian Civil War. Baskin, not surprisingly, was born in Ternopil, Western Ukraine. As many people from Western Ukraine do, he, as it follows from his public posts, supports the expansion of the Western Ukrainian identity via state enforcement and assimilation policies on the other regions of diverse Ukraine. However, for some mysterious reason he, like many of his kind, prefers not to live in western Ukraine, trading it for… Moscow! And now for Dublin. As he revealed in his 2016 interview: “My wife and I have lived in Ireland since 2001\. Before that, we stayed in Moscow and London, but Ireland suited our family the best.” \[14\] Not surprisingly, he regrets the deaths of Nazi Parubiy and Farion. Parubiy, co-founder of the Social Nationalist Party of Ukraine, was liquidated last year in Lviv by the desperate father whose son disappeared in the war. ![](https://aontachtmedia.ie/content/images/2026/10/data-src-image-40381c48-b9ea-4133-84fe-56a36886f284.jpeg) Picture 4\. Baskin’s post celebrating Parubiy. Note that he uses the abbreviation ATO. ATO – Kiev’s regime term that stands for Anti-Terrorist Operation. It was used to describe the army operation of the illegitimate Maidan government against Donbass, suggesting that Donbass residents were terrorists. According to this logic, what is wrong with calling the Russian intervention into the Ukrainian Civil War a Special Military Operation? After playing an active role in the Maidan coup, Parubiy was appointed as Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, and then became chairman of the Ukrainian parliament for three years up to 2019\. The parliament voted in February 2019 to change the constitution to include a stipulation for the government to implement EU and NATO membership – while Parubiy was the chairman – with no popular approval and no referendum held. The liquidator of Parubiy, called it an “act of personal revenge against the Ukrainian authorities” over the death of his son at the frontline. The frontline is not something that professional Ukrainians are rushing into. As this case shows, even some Lviv residents are able to comprehend the main reason for the Ukrainian war. The reason is the ethnonationalist ideology that Parubiy embodied. This ideology, used by the West, caused Kiev’s military operation against Donbass and subsequent Russian intervention. The second “great loss” of Baskin is Iryna Farion, nazi Svoboda MP. She was a long-standing hatemonger on language issues, who called for the criminalisation of the Russian language in Ukraine far prior to Maidan, enjoying Yanukovich “regime” tolerance, and finally was liquidated in 2024 as part of an internal nazi conflict over the dispute of the superiority between racial or language issues. ![](https://aontachtmedia.ie/content/images/2026/10/data-src-image-c0062264-fb2a-40ed-a004-6e3675875354.jpeg) Picture 5\. Baskin\`s regretting liquidation of the notorious Lviv nazi Farion, who is complicit by her long-term hatemongering in causing civil war and dehumanisation of the East residents during both wars. “Bravo, Odessa. May the devils burn in hell!” – Farion notoriously commented on the 2 of May Odessa massacre on Facebook in 2014, when weaponised far-right militants imported to Russian Speaking Odessa from Maidan burned 46 federalists alive with Molotov cocktails in the encircled Trade Union Building. Victims include 17 years-old member of the Communist Party of Ukraine Vadim Papura. ![](https://aontachtmedia.ie/content/images/2026/10/data-src-image-1f9b15c7-5ccc-4d91-8b1e-566aba41412c.jpeg) Picture 6\. Vadim Papura, 17 years old Ukrainian communist killed by neonazis in the Odessa massacre, whose murder was celebrated by Farion. After 2022 Farion made a lot of public statements celebrating the suffering of Eastern residents, as well as public calls to beat the kids of eastern Ukrainian refugees in the kindergartens of safe Western Ukraine for using the Russian language. This call perfectly expresses the atmosphere of hospitality in the safe regions of the Western Ukraine to Eastern compatriots, to which FFG suggests Ukrainian refugees from war zones return. These are the “people” that Baskin celebrates, while receiving Irish state grants for UCCI. I will take the risk of assuming that Baskin, living in Ireland for the last 25 years, is already a citizen of the EU. Therefore, he is not impacted by any decisions of Zelensky and the FFG governments regarding Ukrainians. He does not need military documents to renew an Irish passport, and he is not going to be forced back to Ukraine after Temporary Protection ends. Thus, he and his kind do not share any material conditions with Ukrainian refugees. We can see clearly the opposite case. ![](https://aontachtmedia.ie/content/images/2026/10/data-src-image-41b6f19e-86d8-4245-ba8f-c479a3f125d9.jpeg) Picture 7\. Documents showing almost 200,000 euros worth of funding to the “Ukrainian Crisis Centre Ireland” NGO. In 2023 Baskin’s NGO was handed by the FFG state 199,929 euros of Irish taxpayers’ money just in a single award! \[15\] It was handed by Minister Joe O’Brien to UCCI’s “Initiative for Migrant Mental Health, Well-being & Integration”. Does the Irish government really think that people celebrating Parubiy and Farion may help any war zone Russian-speaking Donbass refugees, especially those with alternative visions on the origins of the conflict? Don’t be silly. ![](https://aontachtmedia.ie/content/images/2026/10/data-src-image-189c51a1-a130-4de8-8909-4d3f74e7b1d4.jpeg) Picture 8\. Baskin with the Ambassador of Ukraine in Ireland, who prohibited passport renewals for Ukrainians without military documents and notorious Zelensky court propagandist, who used to be right-wing agitator prior to his conversion to liberalism. A report on the Banality of Evil. **UKRAINIANS BETRAYED BY EUROPE** Of course, there is no popular support among Ukrainians in Ireland for pro-sanctions, pro-Zelensky, pro-war protests anymore. They are gathering pathetic numbers of well-known people, often non-Ukrainians, such as “Irish Left with Bandera”. There is no trust either in Professional Ukrainian NGOs linked to the FFG government and the Zelensky embassy, that are not issuing Ukrainians passports without valid military documents, forcing people to take “one-way-ticket” into a dictatorship with closed borders to obtain basic documents. The Ukrainian working class in Ireland is in total despair with the new busification refugee rules and the new citizenship bill proposals, as they clearly indicate future hardships and more government attempts to force them back to Ukraine. Even middle-class idiots, some of whom were often openly expressing happiness with the continuation of the war and busification at home as an opportunity to receive EU passports, now realise that the bell tolls for them. The last West-positivistic useful idiots are forced to open their eyes to the predatory essence of the West and Westerners, the fakeness of the EU hospitality in exchange for working-class lives, and now they finally acknowledge the Maidan mistake. They are acknowledging truths that were obvious for the working-class residents of the Russian-speaking South-East 13 years ago, at the very beginning of the forced Euro-Atlantic integration! Now it is easy to do, as the EU pseudo-humanist masks are off. Europe has openly declared its intention to fight till the last Ukrainian, by reconciling its own asylum policies with its own military needs and its own busification. Ukrainians are due to be slaughtered – regardless of whether they come from a background of a 200-dollar or a 1,000-dollar salary in Ukraine. For the EU and bourgeois Europeans, the difference between the worth of a Ukrainian working-class life and a middle-class life is insignificant, like the difference between 200 and 1,000 dollars of monthly income. The 4.5-year-long informal social contract between the EU and Ukrainian atomised society – “Working class are dying being locked in Ukraine, Middle class being groomed in the EU” – is broken by the recent EU and Irish decisions to reconcile Temporary Protection with busification and to strip Ukrainians of the years that they have already spent here, regardless of their work and integration. The Overton window of busification from the EU has been opened and everybody with a Ukrainian passport is a potential candidate to be slaughtered in the last Charge of the EU Liberal Light Brigade against Russia. The EU’s message is clear – as the working class locked in Ukraine is due to end, it is time for the Ukrainian middle class which is hiding from the military “obligations” towards Zelensky in the EU to be processed next. Considering that they en masse are not protesting Zelensky and the EU attacks even on their own rights (as with passport renewals), the prospect of an atomised and extremely divided community looks indeed unpleasant. Over the years spent in the EU, Ukrainians were busy with the reproduction of ethnonationalist hierarchies in the diaspora instead of fighting for common interests, with Professional Ukrainians empowered by EU states’ money dominating over the experiences of those oppressed by the regime at home. Ukraine’s middle-class EU boarding service known as Temporary Protection is being radically transformed over the last months with all signs indicating the forced return of Ukrainians into “democracy” as its potential culmination. Indeed, Temporary Protection allowed those from the middle class who were able to pay the bribes and those from the working class who were able to escape Ukraine and not be shot by Zelensky border guards \[16\] \[17\] to be temporary Europeans and temporarily forget about the horrors of Western colonial rule in their homeland. Now, with the reconciling of busification and protection, things are finally falling into place. If you are Ukrainian you are subhuman for Europe, as in 1941–1945\. There is no difference in relation to the Eastern Slavs between Europe united under Hitler’s Racial Doctrine and Europe united under Ursula's Liberal Democracy – the same ultra-instrumental disposable treatment and dehumanisation, connected to the idea of superiority based on the belief that Europe embodies universal progress and deserves to be expanded. If Social Democracy is the moderate wing of fascism, as a famous Georgian poet put it back in the 1920s, then Liberal Democracy is fascism itself. The current Ukrainian war was started by the Western liberals who took on the appearance of Ukrainian fascists back in 2014, and was moderately, “critically” supported by the Western socialists, who in relation to Ukrainian lives do not really differ from twentieth-century National Socialists. **SUPPORT OF SANCTIONS IS SUPPORT OF THE WAR** One prominent example of “critical” and implicit support of the war is to legitimise or even openly praise sanctions against Russia. Sanctions are an economic weapon of war. The imposition of sanctions is a declaration of economic war. More sanctions, more hostilities among the bourgeoisies of the EU and Russia = less material interest of the elites in negotiations = no possibility of a peace settlement = total destruction of Ukraine in the EU war with Russia until the last Ukrainian. ![](https://aontachtmedia.ie/content/images/2026/10/data-src-image-823e77de-a018-4f6c-86d2-3a44d07fa3da.jpeg) Picture 9\. By promoting sanctions you standing with Banderites and contributing to the war continuation Ukraine is interested in the EU–Russia trade more than both Russia and the EU. While Professional Ukrainians are interested in the continuation of the war, sanctions and busification that generate more funding from the West, the real Ukraine is interested in benefiting from EU–Russia trade as a transit zone, as they were benefiting before. Ukraine was hugely benefiting from EU–Russian economic cooperation until the unprovoked illegal invasion of the Collective West into sovereign Ukrainian affairs called Maidan took place. The possibility of a peace settlement is deeply linked to economic affairs, as the base defines the superstructure. The Minsk agreement was possible only because of German–Russian economic cooperation back in 2014\. Both sides saw the Ukrainian Civil War as an irritant to mutual trade and tried to prevent the expansion of the war beyond Donbass. Moreover, the biggest Ukrainian Nationalist, Vladimir Putin, was actively pushing the Donbass population shelled by Kiev back into a restored Ukrainian state, on the conditions of minor autonomy and amnesty. It is hard to deny that nobody has done so many efforts to restore Ukrainian territorial integrity, destroyed by Maidan, as Putin over the Minsk years. The West destroyed the project of a restored and peaceful Ukraine – by preventing Kiev from implementing Minsk. The West was deeply indifferent to Ukrainian territorial integrity; it just desperately needed the war on the Russian border. There is no justification for explicit or implicit (as in connection to necessity to sanction Israel) support of sanctioning Russia, that harms a peace settlement. And especially on the parliamentary level in the US overseas territory, we live in, since even our boss, Donald J. Trump, just cancelled US sanctions against Russian fuel and called for Zelensky change. Earlier this autumn he spoke about busification in Ukraine – in contrast to the leaders of the EU Performative Left. ![](https://aontachtmedia.ie/content/images/2026/10/data-src-image-88b023bf-72db-4119-b517-764a28dd4e86.jpeg) Picture 10\. By legitimising sanctioning Russia on the Left and repeating lies about non-existent “national-liberation struggle” of homogeneous Ukrainians (with Banderite identity) against Donbass, you are preventing the peace deal and contributing to this! If the European Left wanted peace in Ukraine – why wasn’t it calling to sanction the Turchynov regime for the military operation in Donbass? Or to sanction Poroshenko and Zelensky for Minsk sabotage and the ethnocide of Russian-speakers carried out by the Kiev regime since 2014 via the ban on the Russian language and institutional assimilative policies? And for all deniers of the ongoing ethnocide of Russians and Russian-speakers in Ukraine, there is a recent statement regarding Russian-speaking citizens by Western Ukrainian Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, chairman of the Freedom of Speech Committee (sic!) of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine: “There are no Russian-speaking Ukrainians. There are either Russians or Ukrainians whom Russia has pulled into its cultural world and who have become traitors.” \[18\] Denial of existence is considered one of the most radical forms of ethnocide. **ON WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?** Once again: more sanctions = less peace. An axiom. Sanctions are unable to save even a single Ukrainian life. In fact, sanctions mean support for ongoing busification, repression of the Left and the ethnocide of Russian-speakers in Ukraine. 4.5 years of hell sanctions clearly show: sanctions harm the Ukrainian working-class majority and benefit the Professional Ukrainian minority. It is time to decide on which side you are. Are you on the side of working-class Ukrainians fleeing Zelenskyy busification and Russian speakers fleeing the idiocy of ethnonationalist rule, who are being denied the right of protection under the new FFG rules? Are you on the side of those Ukrainians who are critical of the Zelensky regime and will face legal consequences if forced back? Or are you on the side of professional Ukrainians, EU citizens from the safe Banderite regions, that have never seen the war? Are you siding with NGOs receiving 200,000 euros of Irish taxpayers’ money in one grant, while their chairs regret the liquidations of Nazis by Ukrainian folk on their socials? Are you on the side of physically healthy Banderite hogs who over the years were unable to find the courage and volunteer to fight for the ethnonationalist regime in Kiev they so actively support, but instead condemn others to be bussified and commodify the suffering of others? DEFUND ZELENSKY! DEFUND BUSIFICATION! DEFUND PROFESSIONAL UKRAINIANS! OPEN UKRAINIAN BORDERS! MORE TRADE, ACADEMIC AND SPORT CONNECTIONS WITH RUSSIA, BELARUS AND DONBASS! KEEP AUGHINISH ALUMINA! NO TO THE UPCOMING EU–RUSSIA WAR! NEGOTIATIONS NOW! **Bibliography** 1\. 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