history of every nation from ashgabat, where the turkmen were slaughtered by the troops of general skobelev, to the ukrainian lands, where the ukrainian greek catholic church was persecuted even during the first world war, by the troops of general brusilov, we will see the same nightmare everywhere, and if we will be able to survive if we manage to preserve our statehood if ukrainians will be able to develop as a european nation of this, i am sincerely sure. as long as we do not have to defend this right of ours, it may happen that no one will touch you anymore and the new generations of kazakhs, turkmens, kyrgyz, uzbeks, i hope that there are belarusians, i really hope that other peoples of the former soviet empire will be grateful for this, precisely to our soldiers. precisely our imperial ambitions of moscow always started from ukraine . no exaggeration possible however, i am very well i remember how in 1990 i argued with my colleagues from the baltic countries that the so-called republics of the soviet baltics had already restored their independence, but no one recognized it, and i did