Nikolai Tomenko warned against defeat: "As long as we have two Ukraines..."

Ukraine is truly a unique country. The more problems we face at home, the more we discuss the troubles of others. Of course, I feel for the sovereignty of Canada, Mexico, and Greenland, but let’s finally focus on Ukraine.

Because in our war-torn motherland, there exists a parallel life in two Ukraines.

In the one for the CHOSEN, one of the "best power managers," Smilyansky, reportedly earns a monthly salary of over a million hryvnias and is busy undermining Ukrposhta at the local level, concerned primarily with how to boost his account in CITIBANK, which is in Texas.

Another member of the "unyielding team," Milovanov, calmly receives 290,000 hryvnias monthly for his position on the supervisory board of the "Ukrainian Defense Industry," around 200,000 for his work at the Kyiv School of Economics, and is setting aside funds… in two pension plans back in America.

A dual citizen and concurrently Deputy Minister of Education Vinnytsky justifies increasing tuition fees for the public while worrying about closing as many schools as possible.

The Mayor of Kyiv, along with 13 deputies, contemplates which country in the world they can visit next during the war at the expense of the budget (according to the Kyiv City Council budget committee, our "savior of Kyiv" spent 23 million budget hryvnias on trips abroad and was away on business for almost 100 days in 2022-23)…

Meanwhile, in the other Ukraine, for the people, citizens are daily concerned about how to wisely use or invest a whole thousand hryvnias from the government into a good cause.

Teachers are endlessly pleased that they will soon receive, though not the promised salary of 4,000 dollars, but an additional payment of 1,300 hryvnias.

Pensioners cannot contain their joy over the stability of their income, as the government guarantees that the minimum subsistence level and social payments will remain unchanged until 2028. This means that in the coming years, the minimum pension will be 2,361 hryvnias, while for judges, who are among the chosen in Ukraine, the average pension will exceed 100,000 hryvnias.

And so we live.

RESIDENTS of other countries and MULTIPLE citizens in power earn million-dollar salaries in UKRAINE, while investing in their families, banks, and pension funds ABROAD.

Meanwhile, ordinary Citizens, whose social payments have been frozen by the government, still find ways to support our Armed Forces.

So isn’t it time to eliminate the "Ukraine for the chosen" and unite into one single Ukraine, where everyone will work and invest in the Armed Forces instead of family real estate, banks, and pensions abroad?