The United States will continue exerting pressure to free Ukrainian
pilot Nadiya Savchenko and other illegally detained Ukrainians.
U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Samantha Power said
this, speaking in Kyiv on Thursday.
The diplomat noted that while the people and the Government of Ukraine
had pressed relentlessly for the release of Nadiya Savchenko, the overwhelming
majority of Russians have little idea that their soldiers are fighting in
eastern Ukraine, where the Russian government continues to deny its
involvement.
"In these contrasts, one begins to see why the aspirations of
Ukraine's reform movement pose such an existential threat to the Russian model.
A system where leaders serve the people, versus a system where leaders think
the people serve them. A system of rights, versus a system of favors. A system
that builds up independent institutions and checks on power, versus a system
that knocks them down," the U.S. Ambassador to the UN said.
According to her, the whole world is learning from the struggle of
Ukraine how to build a democracy from the grassroots up.
Power assured that the United States would always support Ukraine as the
struggle of Ukraine has resonance far beyond its sovereign borders.
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