Iyoha John Darlington
The seven months old Russian-Ukraine conflict has today assumed a more dangerous turn following the annexation of Ukraine’s four regions in a sham referenda.
In a blatant violation of International Law, Putin announced the annexation of occupied territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, which has continued to draw condemnation and criticisms worldwide.
Quite frankly, this, according to observers and military analysts, remains the largest forcible annexation of land in Europe in living memory since the end of World War2.
However, this act of aggression clearly eviscerates the principle of territorial integrity and must be condemned by all lovers of freedom.
Ukraine and its people reserve the right to exist if you ask me and should not succumb to the diabolic Whims and Caprices of a soulless tyrant and overlord who amid other threats has made nuclear saber-rattling his stock-in-trade.
It is high time he was reminded that many other countries around the world are also nuclear-armed. The US has consistently and repeatedly warned that any use of tactical nuclear weapons by Russia against the Ukrainian people would be met with decisive response.
The world cannot continue like this with the ancient sword of Damocles hanging loosely over our heads. Time to keep a tight rein on Putin is now or we shall all find ourselves in dishonourable graves, if I may borrow a hackneyed quotation from Shakespeare.
However, all I crave is a world without weapons and violence.
– Iyoha John Darlington (Ph.D), Senior Special Assistant to the Governor of Edo State is a social communicator on national and global issues.
