They will alienate many Ukrainians who now find themselves under de facto occupation. They will divide and dishearten Ukraine’s friends. In short they will damage Ukraine’s national security, and for this reason above all, we urge you to reject them. As soon as the laws were passed, pro-Russians were able to say that this was yet further proof that Ukraine was now run by neo-Nazis who had come to power as a result of an American- and European-sponsored coup. Headlines appeared in Western publications usually sympathetic to Ukraine reporting, for example, in the words of Leonid Bershidsky, a
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