{"id":1307351,"date":"2022-02-17T16:54:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T21:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1307351"},"modified":"2022-02-17T16:54:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T21:54:18","slug":"ukraine-were-not-worried-about-invasion-because-russia-has-been-invading-us-for-eight-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-were-not-worried-about-invasion-because-russia-has-been-invading-us-for-eight-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: We\u2019re Not Worried About Invasion Because Russia Has Been Invading Us for Eight Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fukraine-were-not-worried-about-invasion-because-russia-has-been-invading-us-for-eight-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1307351&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Tank-painted-with-Ukrainian-flag-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>Ukrainian state media outlet <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.net\/rubric-polytics\/3405389-russian-war-engine-failure-whats-going-on-in-ukraine.html\"><span>Ukrinform<\/span><\/a><span> ran an editorial on Wednesday arguing that Ukrainians are unfazed by the war hysteria gripping many Western politicians and media outlets because Russian forces have been in their country for eight years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ukrinform billed the lengthy article as \u201can editorial, aiming to convey to the Western audiences, including journalists, what\u2019s on the mind of the Ukrainian people these days, why they have no fear, and what is the main motivation driving the nation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The gist of the editorial was that life continues as normal for Ukrainians, who are certainly aware of the Russian threat but not obsessed with it. Unlike some outside observers, the Ukrainians are not responding with great alarm to each tidbit of news about Russian activity on the far side of their border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe country\u2019s capital Kyiv, along with other major cities, remains vibrant and lives a normal life with children going to school, businesses and offices remaining open to clients, no one taping their windows in anticipation of bombing or digging trenches in the suburbs to \u2018meet\u2019 Russian tanks,\u201d Ukrinform wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The key passage in the article needled Western media for paying so little attention to Ukraine while Russian-backed separatists waged a brutal war in the eastern part of the country, perking up only when the narrative of a Russian invasion kicking off World War III fired up their imaginations:<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>Some western journalists perceive our population as \u201cfatalists,\u201d which is plain wrong. In fact, there is nothing \u201cheroic,\u201d \u201cfatalistic,\u201d or even unusual in such human behavior. The reason behind it is quite simple \u2013 Russia has been waging war against Ukraine for eight years already. These are the eight years of daily reports of deadly shelling, IDPs, and casualties among our military and civilians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>These are the eight years of hate, tonnes of information dirt and Russian malign narratives being shamelessly poured onto the Ukrainians from the Internet and local pro-Russian TV channels \u2013 generally unrestricted. After, all, this is the unfortunate downside of democracy and freedom of speech for which Ukrainians have fought for so long\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>These are the eight years of a rather superficial attitude on the part of the West to this largely \u201cforgotten\u201d war\u2026 \u201cWhere is Ukraine anyway?\u201d many in Europe and beyond must have been asking themselves, unwilling to get out of their comfort zone and stress out over a conflict they thought would never concern them almost directly\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Ukrinform argued that the big shock for Western media came this year when the Russians began \u201cwaving their nuclear bomb\u201d and lining up tanks on the Ukrainian border \u2013 but for Ukrainians, the big \u201cshocker\u201d came when Russia annexed Crimea and \u201cunleashed a brutal massacre in eastern Ukraine\u2019s Donbas\u201d in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe war, which has been going on for so many years now, has affected almost every family. It changed the entire society,\u201d the editors wrote, mourning their own staffers who were killed in the Donbas conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is all you need to know to understand what\u2019s happening in Ukraine at the moment: The people are calm because they have long made their choice. The country will fight for a certain set of vital values, which are as strong in Kyiv as they are in Brussels, Prague, or Washington,\u201d the editors declared.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ukrinform concluded by thanking their \u201ccolleagues\u201d in Western media for being concerned, and for bringing belated global attention to the clash between freedom and autocracy that began in 2014, and for helping to push back against the \u201cmassive flow of manipulative reports and outrageous disinformation circulated by Russia\u2019s government-operated media platforms.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAs for the war \u2026 Have no doubt. Ukraine will prevail. We won\u2019t fail you,\u201d the editors promised.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian state media outlet Ukrinform ran an editorial on Wednesday arguing that Ukrainians are unfazed by the war hysteria gripping many Western politicians and media outlets because Russian forces have &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}