The new state of affairs in Ukraine harbours enormous dangers for the Ukrainian people

 

AKEL considers that the new state of affairs in Ukraine harbours enormous dangers for the Ukrainian people and the neighbouring region. The putschist move to seize the government by the opposition, although an agreement had been previously been agreed to hold snap elections, illustrates the anti-democratic stand of the leaders of the right-wing opposition. Various circles of the same order are exploiting the severe long-standing problems that existed and developed in the country, the corruption, the breach of promises by the government in order to establish a new situation which will primarily and above all be to the benefit of another section of the oligarchy. This path has resulted in the dead, the terror but also the threat of partition of the state and the country.

AKEL condemns the coup d’état, as well as the foreign interventions, that led to the escalation of the social and political conflict. It’s not inconceivable that those who planted the seeds will reap the results of storms, through the pursuit to expand their sphere of influence and imperialist interests against the Ukrainian people.

The rivalries developing have as their goal the raw materials, rich resources and the pipeline routes, their control by the international monopolies that are planning their profits over the next fifty years. They are seeking a new geopolitical strategy for integrating Ukraine through force into NATO and the European Union.

An urgent combatting of neo-fascism is demanded, which whether armed with its ideas or with weapons, has already led the country into dead-end paths. The same scenario was played out in the war in Afghanistan when imperialist circles armed the forces of the Taliban.

AKEL supports the holding of democratic and transparent democratic processes that will be the choice of the Ukrainian people, with regards the orientation of both its foreign policy and economic policy.

AKEL denounces the murderous attacks by the Neo-Nazis against the Communist Party of Ukraine and the burning of the Party’s offices in Kiev. AKEL supports the struggle of the Communist Party of Ukraine and the people of the country for democracy and real justice.