WE fully support Government’s stance on the war in Ukraine. We equally support the peace-seeking mission undertaken by President Hakainde Hichilema and other African leaders.
There is nothing nobler than seeking peace. Even the Bible is categorical as it states that “Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.”
The destruction of life for imperialists is as antiquated as it is a grave sin against humanity because life is sacred.
We find it shocking that Russian President Vladimir Putin implored the Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin to stop his putsch against Moscow to forestall the specter of bloodshed, specifically the shedding of Russian blood by fellow Russians.
This is exactly what President Putin is perpetrating in Ukraine, shedding the blood of innocent children, women, and men, many of them struck as they were sleeping.
The rebel leader Prigozhin has laid bare the imperial designs of President Putin, stating in no uncertain terms that Ukraine did not pose any immediate danger to Russia, to deserve the onslaught that has seen thousands of soldiers and innocent civilians killed.
What we find even more astonishing and highly hypocritical is the admonition by President Putin condemning the uprising because it posed a danger of shedding blood in Russia. This was as if to suggest that life in Ukraine did not matter.
Indeed, Prigozhin stated “We are turning our columns around and going back to field camps,” because he did not want to “spill Russian blood.”
The conflict between Ukraine and Russia has been marked by one-sided murders and slaughter in which Russians choose targets to annihilate in Ukraine. The Ukrainians cannot retaliate, for fear of provoking a nuclear war.
The real victims of the war are the millions of women, children, and elderly men who have left Ukraine to seek refuge in neighboring countries. Indeed, that this is happening in this modern day and age is an indictment of humanity.
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