Professor Roman Sheremeta

Dec 29, 2025

Any land grab by russia would be a colossal defeat for the world democracy and the beginning of World War 3.

The ongoing “negotiations” are based on the idea of how much Ukrainian territory to give to russia. The idea of such appeasement is completely flawed.

1. Ukraine is a sovereign country. What if somebody were to grab a plot of land on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and open “negotiations” on how much should be kept. What do you think would be Trump’s response? Ukraine is a sovereign country and the land belongs to Ukraine.
2. Leaving any territories under russian control means handing millions of Ukrainians over to russian despotism, the repeat of gulag and Holodomor. Russia has clearly stated why they started this war – to eliminate Ukraine. The russian official press agency “RIA Novosti” has explicitly published a program for the complete elimination of the Ukrainian nation as such.
3. Russia always lies and cannot be trusted. Starting with Budapest memorandum, where russia agreed to protect Ukrainian sovereignty, and ending with hundreds of direct lies from Kremlin, such as “we are not going to attack Ukraine.” They lie all the time. So, any guarantees by russia are not worth a dime.
4. Any appeasement of the aggressor justifies future aggression. Have we learned nothing from history? In 1938, British PM Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Adolf Hitler, and famously called it “peace for our time.” This appeasement of the aggressor led to Czechoslovakia being divided by Germany, expansion of Hitler’s aggression, and the beginning of WW2.

Any appeasement of russia today will give permission to all dictators around the world to attack other countries, knowing that eventually, like russia, they will receive something as a reward for their aggression. And this would be the beginning of World War 3.

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This beautiful 4-year-old Ukrainian girl was killed by russians on December 23.

Her name was Kristina.

Russians bombed her building and ended her life.

Yesterday, her family buried her.

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He stepped on a mine, took two bullets, survived a grenade-launcher strike, and a drone drop. Five wounds. After each one, he returned to the front.

His name is Ruslan Knysh. Today, he has no limbs.

Ruslan says: “I understood that I would not wait for the enemy to come and drive me out of my home. I decided to take my fate into my own hands.”

Ruslan is 20 years old. He is from Selydove in the Donetsk region. He spent the first three years of his life in an orphanage and was later adopted. As a teenager, he consciously switched to speaking Ukrainian.

He says that after reading about the Valuev Circular and the Ems Ukaz, it became physically painful for him to realize that part of his identity had been banned for decades.

At 18, he took academic leave and decided to go to war. His mother was against it. At the end of 2023, Ruslan packed his belongings, took his documents, and ran away from home. At the Pokrovsk military enlistment office, he was turned away because of his age.

In Dobropillia, he was mobilized into the 109th Territorial Defense Brigade, completed basic training, and signed a three-year contract. For another two weeks, commanders hesitated to send him to the front because of his age.

He fought in the Donetsk region. He served as a mortar operator and also worked with a machine gun. He received his first wound near Pokrovsk.

The second came after a grenade-launcher strike.

The third — burns to his face and hand after a drone drop near New York.

The fourth — when he stepped on a mine.

The fifth occurred on October 27, 2024, in the Kharkiv region, when an FPV drone struck his leg during an ambush. This resulted in the amputation of all his limbs.

Ruslan says: “I kept returning to the front because the ‘Decalogue of the Ukrainian Nationalist’ contains the words: ‘Avenge the death of the Great Knights.’ Their sacrifice must not be forgotten.”

After the amputations, he admits: “For several days, I asked why I wasn’t allowed to die. The most frightening thing was the uncertainty — what comes next.”

Today, he is in hospital. Rehabilitation lies ahead and, most likely, osseointegration.

Ruslan explains why we must win this war:l “Because no one wants the fate of Bucha, Izium, Mariupol, or Kherson for their loved ones. We need a shared national idea — the destruction of the external and internal enemy, and the preservation of an independent Ukraine.”

Source: translated and adopted from Tymofiy Milovanov

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Every mass missile and drone strike on Ukraine is not just terror against civilians. It is part of Putin’s negotiation strategy.

Whenever Ukraine’s president heads into talks with Trump, the Kremlin escalates attacks to create the impression that Ukraine has “no cards,” that Zelensky does not control the war, and cannot protect his country.

This tactic is predictable — and it can be undermined by demonstrating strength before negotiations. Ukraine has the forces and the capabilities. What is needed is using them at the right moment.

Remember Operation Spider Web? This would be the perfect time to execute a similar type of operation.