A thousand days of terror

By: Luis Gonzales Posada - 29/11/2024

Putin has celebrated 1,000 days since the invasion of Ukraine by announcing the serial production of the missile Oreshnik hypersonic missile, of great power and precision, with a speed of three kilometers per hour second and range of 5,500 kilometers.

The celebrations included attacking several Ukrainian cities with 188 drones, leaving them without electricity, and threatening them with the Poseidon nuclear torpedo, which creates radioactive tsunamis that can wipe out entire towns.

These three years of conflict have been a long time of death and destruction, with thousands of deaths.

It is also estimated that 3.5 million Ukrainians are displaced in their country, 6.5 million of whom are refugees in different parts of the world and 14.6 million in need of humanitarian aid urgent, according to UNHCR.

The destruction of its infrastructure exceeds 486 billion euros, a figure equivalent to 2.8 times the GDP of that country (UN News 2/15/2024); and, although there is no precise data on spending on weapons and troop mobilization, it is estimated that Russia alone has invested USD 800 thousand millions.

An investment that includes hiring 10 thousand North Korean soldiers and hundreds of Yemeni mercenaries to replace 720,000 Russians killed in the conflict, according to figures from the The Wall Street Journal.

In this context, let us remember that a few weeks after the invasion, the media projected pathetic images of 420 corpses found in Bucha, dumped in the streets, in their homes or in ditches, where bodies were thrown with their hands tied behind their backs and signs of having been tortured.

Another 18 were found murdered in a basement, with their ears cut off and their teeth pulled out.

Bucha, a small town of 37 thousand inhabitants, located 28 kilometers from the capital, was occupied for two months by troops of the 64th Motorized Rifle Brigade, commanded by Colonel Azatbek Omurbekov, who, for that criminal act, was distinguished as "Hero of the Russian Federation."

War reports add that hundreds of homes, hospitals and schools were bombed and that two thousand and eight people have disappeared children and 551 were killed, figures that must have increased significantly.

These deplorable events are connected with the kidnapping of 20 thousand minors transferred to Russia. The kyiv government claims that "they are deprived of their nationality; they change their names and surnames; then they are adopted or admitted in reception centres, and are prevented from returning to their homeland."

In response, the International Criminal Court ordered the arrest of Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, Commissioner for Children's Rights, symbolic measure, without no practical effect, because the Russians do not recognise the jurisdiction of the Court and because Putin only travels to allied countries.

Despite these criminal acts, China, Iran and North Korea have become diplomatic supporters of the genocidal regime; and, in our hemisphere, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Bolivia, whose president, Luis Arce,

He was in Moscow to sign agreements for the exploitation lithium deposits and develop nuclear energy.

Let's be clear: Russia is not willing to sign a peace agreement with Ukraine unless that country agrees to give up part of its territory and not to join NATO.

Putin cares little or nothing about violating the UN's guiding principles, which have been turned into papers soaked in ink, and has not responded to repeated exhortations from the secretary General, Ambassador António Guterres, to withdraw his troops from Ukraine.

History teaches us that a tyrant can only be defeated on the battlefield, as was the case with Hitler. In 1938, in Munich, the Nazi leader met with the English Prime Minister, Arthur Neville Chamberlain, the French President Édouard Daladier and the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini with the purpose of solving the problem of the Sudetenland, a Czechoslovak region with a majority German population. At the conference they agreed to cede that region to Germany in exchange for Hitler's promise not to invade the rest of the country.

Upon returning to London, an enthusiastic and naive Chamberlein stepped off the plane waving a piece of paper with the agreement and saying "we have achieved peace."

Churchill, a visionary politician, replied with the famous comment: "He who humiliates himself to avoid war, will suffer humiliation and will also suffer war."

This was indeed the case, because in the following months the Nazis invaded all of Czechoslovakia, murdering thousands of citizens and confining the Jewish population in ghettos, where thousands of human beings died atrociously.

Thus began World War II, which claimed 50 million lives and caused devastating material destruction.

In short, Putin will only be defeated with weapons, at a high cost in human lives and material losses, yes,

But they will be less than maintaining the status quo, which is now more complicated by the Soviet threat of using nuclear bombs on invaded territory and against European nations that support Ukraine.

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