It is Russia that killed Polish people 

However, what we should understand is that the perpetrator of the tragedy is the misanthropic regime of Vladimir Putin. Russia is responsible for this tragedy.

Military actions on the territory of Ukraine sooner or later were supposed to lead to missiles hitting the territory of neighboring countries. At the beginning of the war, I wrote that it was only a matter of time. Yesterday it was probably a Ukrainian missile. Tomorrow it will be a Russian missile. And not just one. Such is the law of any military action.

If we do not want the war in Ukraine to escalate into a global conflict, into a major war leading to nuclear strikes and the death of tens of millions of people (and the possibility of such a conflict increases with each day of the war passing in Ukraine), we must stop the war. We have to protect the civilian population of Ukraine from missile attacks. We must work hard to ensure the economic and political collapse of the Russian regime.

The alternative to this remains simple: sooner or later Russian missiles will fall on other states. And they will kill more people. Sooner or later, a humanitarian and technological disaster will occur. Sooner or later, a great war will begin. Journalists will still report about it, but historians will not document.

Because by the time that war ends, there will be no more historians. Unless cockroaches will learn to write historical works.

About the author: Vitaly Portnikov, writer, journalist.

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