Comments by "Dylan Vogler" (@dylanvogler2165) on "Zelensky: Ukraine will not cede territory for peace with Russia" video.

@jonlister1981 EU's intention? Are you insane? We already have a migrant crisis lol. We hope that after the war most Ukrainians can return home, not because we want them gone, but because Ukraine is their home. It is amazing how a Russian can blame a refugee crisis started by the Russian invasion, on the EU lol.
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@yellowtunes2756 "Ukraine banned the Russian language" this is false. My Ukrainian friend speaks Russian, the refugees in my house do as well. They're free to do so. What the law did was taking away the special status of the Russian language. Because well they tried to form a national identity. But people can talk Russian everywhere in Ukraine, well atleast before the war. Glorifying nazis is also biggest bs ever. You are literally parroting Russian propaganda without any actually having been there. You would have seen it is bs. The south and east isn't oppressed at all... this is just you making an excuse for a bs imperialist war. Some of the biggest protests were in Kherson.
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@yellowtunes2756 if my family and I were speaking German (better example because it is our larger neighbor) because this part of the country had been germanized for a long time and they would tell my children that they would need to learn Dutch at school, because we are part of the Netherlands, I would understand. I would ask for the possibility to be able to speak German at home and in public. But would understand them needing to speak the national language on school and administration. Kinda like how it is in every other country including Russia. Their children can speak Russian, most of my friends speak Russian and teach it to their children. The fact they need to speak Ukrainian at school or when going to government institutions doesn't mean they can't speak Russian in their free time and with their family. You can still teach your child Russian, you are exaggerating the problem. I could switch the story for you as well, so you can also see the Ukrainian point of view. As this story has two sides and not just the one you have. Imagine if Ukraine would occupy Kuban for a few hundred years now. Ukrainenized the region and because of it the people now speak mostly Ukrainian, having completely banned the use of Russian and it's culture within the territory (which Russia did yeah during the Russian Empire to Ukraine, the Ukrainian language was forbidden within Ukraine itself imagine that). Then finally Kuban returns to Russia, wouldn't you want this region to speak Russian again? Because it used too? So wouldn't you also reintroduce Russian school etc? To me it sounds that many Russians and Russian speaking people often consider the Ukrainian language inferior (the same that happend here with French. Dutch was inferior the nobility spoke French). I don't deny there are nazi elements in Ukraine, they are not "glorified" though. That would be the same as me now saying that you are a supporter of a mass murderer for idolising Lenin because he is responsible for 5 million deaths. Let alone Stalin. Then there is Alexander Dugin, someone I would consider a facist, who directly inspires Putin. So yeah when you're country is saintly in this regards, start to criticise others. Btw the whole we need to protect Russian speakers or ethnic Russians... I hope you are aware how similar this sounds to the reason for the anshluss and the claim on the Sudentenland as well as that it was a casus belli for the German invasion into Poland... so yeah I don't agree with doing that mate. It's an excuse of an aggressor state to justify its irredentism.
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@yellowtunes2756 the use of the swastika is illegal here too. About Donbass, tragic. Casualty of the great power game between US and Russia. Arming different sides of the conflict like they always do. About Crimea, childish move but a reaction on a territory being illegally annexed. I am all for the right of self determination but to a certain degree. It must follow law. Referendums should be achieved politically not militarily. I feel sorry for those killed in Donbass too. Sadly most believe either one side completely or the other getting these ridiculous situations. About regional languages, we have those too including Frisian. They can speak it and learn it at school. But Dutch is used for inter regional communication and is simply more important. Russian is this in Russia and Ukrainian in Ukraine. Should it be a special status language, no. It should get protected status though like they also give European minority languages. However calling it a ban is an exaggeration. The West of Ukraine was Polish yeah but when you speak about the difference between western and eastern Ukraine this difference is more due to the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary. Within Austria-Hungary, Ukrainian was recognized as a regional language and flourished. Whilst it had always been oppressed in Poland-Lithuania (and interwar Poland) and the Russian Empire. USSR allowed Ukrainian again under Lenin, but under Stalin it returned to Russification policies. The war, which has been raging since 2014, is the case of a minor power again being the victim of great powers who don't care about international law and do as they please but lecture us minor powers about international law when we don't agree with them.
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