Roman Ratushny believed in a better, purer Ukraine

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As a teenage activist he learned that even if you were trampled and dispersed you could still set something going. Small acts of defiance could grow

Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskHe had been there for several nights, sleeping in college lectures rather than miss anything. But on that night, the 30th, something odd started to happen. The stage they had set up for speeches was being taken down. People began to shout, and suddenly hundreds of riot police burst into the square, laying about them with sticks.

Ukraine after the revolution was still not the country he wanted it to be. Corruption flourished there. Businessmen were in cahoots with the government, illegality was covered up and bribes were passed round freely. For civic activists, as he soon became—having realised how his bright, direct gaze could galvanise people—it was a dangerous place. Those who spoke out faced rough treatment, foot-dragging courts and no police investigations.

Early protests were mild, with pipers, fiddlers and himself with a megaphone encouraging a straggling band of citizens, some with their dogs, to block the road that ran by the park. But he also confronted the thugs in high-viz who guarded the building site, got pushed away and had his phone smashed. High-ups from the building company threatened to break his back and make him disappear. They began to watch his house, so for a time he moved out.

Soon enough, however, another war intervened; or perhaps it was all one war, to build a better, purer and more beautiful Ukraine. On the first day of the Russian invasion, he volunteered. Before proper volunteer units were even formed he had made his own in Kyiv, naturally called “Protasiv Yar”, and went shopping to buy small drones to spy out Russian military positions.

 

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So sad ....

So what

so he was Azov battalion?

A blood sucking leech was killed today. Someone give the Russians a medal.

a lot of Ukraine soldiers are being caught with Nazi tattoos all over their body’s … Well, if you look into the past history of Ukraine and Ukrainian relations with the US and other Countries around the world you might understand what’s going on better. isupportthecommonthing

soundmigration Here's his mate Sternenko from Right Sector, wearing neonazi-branded clothing, a confessed murderer who still gloats about the Odessa massacre.

What would be a purer Ukraine? 🤔

Sad loss of another precious and unique life. When are the PEACE talks happening?!

yeah really pure. the n..a.z..i who went to hong kong to start violent riots

Purer?

What do you mean by “purer” Ukraine Is this a joke

'purer'? What's up with these shit words?

I've no faith but words fail me. Jesus have mercy on us. Justice is so far removed from the human condition.

💔

For russian bots- 'purer' means without corruption and crime in power. And yes, russians are nazis and racists, ask any non-russian living in russia

One detail. It's not crisis, it's WAR.

pure meaning...what exactly?

May he rest in peace....all this unnecessary violence and death because of one man, putin.

That’s not possible whit NATA alliance

U mean pure ,like the Nazis mean it?

Hitler approves

Como vaguista con canas, podría aconsejarle a este modelo de Vogue que se cambie el peinado...uno escapa cuando tiene 1 lugar seguro...uno prepara asaltos cuando tiene 1 enemigo...1 activista lucha hasta consigo mismo...con sus ideas..busca 1 ideal que nunca existirá, evolucióna

Nazis

Como vaguista con canas, podría aconsejarle a este modelo de Vogue que se cambie el peinado...uno escapa cuando tiene 1 lugar seguro...uno prepara asaltos cuando tiene 1 enemigo...1 activista lucha hasta consigo mismo...con sus ideas...busca 1 ideal que nunca existirá...

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