​ British journalist Peter Hitchens wrote in his article “Can | DPR MFA

​ British journalist Peter Hitchens wrote in his article “Can anyone explain to me why this was called evacuation and not surrender?” on the Mail Online:

“The other night I shocked a distinguished Oxford academic by informing her that the lovely, angelic, saintly, perfect Ukrainians had blocked off the water supply to Crimea in 2014.

She was rightly shocked by this nasty, uncivilised act of spite, but it was far more shocking that this highly educated person did not know this important fact.

In the same way almost nobody, in education, politics or journalism, knows about the nasty, racist roots of Ukrainian nationalism, the horrible history of the vicious Stepan Bandera (now a Ukrainian national hero), or the Kiev state’s discriminatory scorn for the Russian language.

If Canada treated its French speakers as Ukraine treats its Russian speakers, there would be international outrage.”

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