Serhii Pashynskyi in interview with Berliner Zeitung: "Ukraine is more than recipient of aid. We contribute to our shared security" The war is now in its fifth year, but its roots reach back well before February 24, 2022, to the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the Orange Revolution of 2004, the 1991 independence referendum, and the Ukrainian People’s Republic, proclaimed in 1917 and crushed by the Red Army four years later. Moscow invokes history to justify its claims, drawing on everything from Kyivan Rus to Putin’s assertion that Russians and Ukrainians are one people. Kyiv counters by invoking the Holodomor, the murdered generation of 1930s poets, and its own European history. A struggle over memory and identity preceded the war over territory. 6 005 30
Pashynskyi on criminal case: "Aim is to block my activities as head of Association of Defense Industries" The NABU and the SSU came to Pashynskyi in a ten-year-old case - on suspicion of establishing a "criminal organization" that allegedly illegally took possession of and sold the so-called "Kurchenko’s fuel". This allegedly caused UAH 960 million in damage to the state. 6 264 43