Svitlanka Sugak: 

"This war affected my life in 2014, I lost my parent’s home, an opportunity to visit my native town, and the graves of my father and grandparents. My mom died at the end of 2021 in russian occupation… Five months before the full-scale war started. 

But I’m lucky one – I could bury her and say farewell.

Thousands of Ukrainians lost their relatives after the 24th of February 2022 and couldn’t do this because russians make war crimes"

Svitlanka Sugak: 

"In the absence of specifics and facts, this thesis contains at the same time a very specific and very serious accusation — of promoting an anti-human ideology. And this could be called banal populism, which, unlike terrorism, is not prohibited by any convention. But the conditions when Ukraine is facing Russian aggression, which has caused thousands of deaths, deprived millions of Ukrainians of their homes, and the entire population of Ukraine — the basic right to security, has called into question the security of the entire world, this populism is no less dangerous than terrorism.

The tactical goals of this populism:

• demonization and defamation of the Ukrainian military and the Armed Forces of Ukraine in general;

• discrediting the image of Ukraine;

• deprive Ukraine of international support;

• to legalize Russia’s destruction of the Ukrainian people."