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Politician and public figure Mykola Tomenko emphasizes the need to legislatively protect Ukrainians from Ukrainophobia, equating it with the already established accountability for anti-Semitism. Currently, the petition on the president’s website has collected just a little over two and a half thousand signatures, and a little more than a month remains before the collection ends. Why the author of the initiative considers this issue essential for victory—read in our material.
Why Ukrainophobia still does not have a clear legal responsibility
The politician sharply raises the question of why, in the fourth year of all-out war in the country, there is still no clear legislative mechanism for punishing manifestations of Ukrainophobia. In his view, the authorities sometimes pay more attention to protecting the rights of national minorities than to fighting for the interests of their own people.
“We demand that the country’s authorities finally legalize responsibility for manifestations of Ukrainophobia at least equal to the responsibility for anti-Semitism already enacted by the President. Because it creates the impression that the fifth Moscow and cosmopolitan column in our country, although it is not against the night, will say, ‘the Ukrainian’ authorities care more about certain national minorities than about the Ukrainian people,” — noted Mykola Tomenko.
Call to support the petition: time is running out
As of today, the electronic petition titled “defend Ukraine from Ukrainophobia and the ideology of the ‘Russian World’” has been signed by only 2 526 citizens. The initiator stresses: victory in the war is impossible without defending one’s own history, language, culture, and church.
“As of today we have signatures from only 2 526 responsible citizens and conscious Ukrainians who understand that without victory in the worldview war for Ukrainian history, culture, language, and church, a free, independent, and strong Ukraine is impossible,” emphasizes the public figure.
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