If I’m wrong, please help me to understand how? They have, also since then, crossed any number of red lines that had been set out quite clearly over a number of years by your neighbors the Russian Federation and in consequence they, the extreme nationalists, have set your country on the path to this disastrous war. Sadly, your old man agreed to those totalitarian, anti-democratic dismissals of the will of the Ukrainian people, and the forces of extreme nationalism that had lurked, malevolent, in the shadows, have, since then, ruled the Ukraine. One can only assume that your husband’s electoral policies didn’t sit well with certain political factions in Kiev and that those factions persuaded your husband to diametrically change course ignoring the people’s mandate. To end the civil war in the East and bring peace to the Donbas and partial autonomy to Donetsk and Luhansk.Īnd to ratify and implement the rest of the body of the Minsk 2 agreements. He stood on the election platform of the following promises.

Yes, I mean the platform upon which he so laudably ran for the office of President of Ukraine, the platform upon which he won his historic landslide victory in the democratic election in 2019. If we, instead, wish to achieve a different outcome we may have to seek a different route and that route may lie in your husband’s previously stated good intentions. People like you and me actually want peace in Ukraine, don’t want the outcome to be that you have to fight to the last Ukrainian life – and possibly even, if the worst comes to the worst, to the last human life. Throwing fuel, in the form of armaments, into a firefight, has never worked to shorten a war in the past, and it won’t work now, particularly because, in this case, most of the fuel is (a) being thrown into the fire from Washington DC, which is at a relatively safe distance from the conflagration, and (b) because the “fuel throwers” have already declared an interest in the war going on for as long as possible. Hmmm? I guess that might depend on what you mean by “support for Ukraine?” If by “support for Ukraine,” you mean the West continuing to supply arms to the Kiev government’s armies, I fear you may be tragically mistaken. Iread an article on BBC.com apparently taken from an interview you have already recorded for a program called Sunday with Laura Kuenssburg which broadcasted on the BBC on September 4th.īBC.com quotes you as saying that if support for Ukraine is strong the crisis will be shorter. My heart bleeds for you and all the Ukrainian and Russian families, devastated by the terrible war in Ukraine. The musician then referred to the promises the Ukrainian president made during his 2019 election campaign, which included a vow to “end the civil war in the east and bring peace to the Donbas and partial autonomy to Donetsk and Luhansk” as well as “ratify the Minsk-II agreement,” an early attempt to secure a ceasefire between the Ukrainian government and Russian-backed separatists in the east. Waters then suggested an alternative course of action: “In order to achieve a different outcome,” instead of seeking support from the West, “We may have to seek a different route,” a route that he believes should feature the realisation of president Volodymyr Zelensky’s “previously stated good intentions”.

Roger waters children