Olexandr Sych: Free Europe is impossible without free Ukraine

"Free Europe is impossible without free Ukraine today. Our struggle for the democracy and sovereignty means defending the right of each state to determine its priorities and to build its future independently," - said Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksandr Sych on September 23 in Washington during a round table while considering internal and external (security) priorities of work of Ukrainian Parliament of the next (VIII) convocation.

"The current struggle of Ukraine against the Russian aggressor is the test not only for our country but for the entire civilized world, it is global confrontation between democracy and tyranny, freedom and slavery," stressed the official.

Oleksandr Sych expressed gratitude to the U.S. Government for the firm and consistent support of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine, the implementation of targeted policies on a large-scale counteraction to the Russian aggression on the global level. The official expressed hope that the common values promoted by the U.S. and the modern Ukraine will become the basis for further deepening of Ukrainian-American strategic partnership and expanding comprehensive cooperation in order to halt the aggression of the Russian Federation.

Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine emphasized there emerged gross violations of the rights of the Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians in Crimea and Donbas after the occupation of the Peninsula and armed incursion of Russia in the East of Ukraine. “Brutal attacks on the civil rights of our compatriots in Crimea and Donbas, numerous cases of prohibited entry by the Crimean Tatars to the ethnic homeland, abductions, arrests of activists and protesters for the demonstration of their Ukrainian background - these are the problems faced by Ukrainian citizens.

According to the top official, one of the reasons of Russian aggression against Ukrainian state has become focus of our country on the European development.