Is present Ukraine an independent country?

Probably, many have already forgotten that one of the main theses of Ukrainian protest movement - the so-called Euromaidan - which had begun more than 10 years ago, was the allegation that Ukraine under Yanukovych was a colony of Russia.

Naturally, no evidence was given for the above-mentioned allegation, but the present article deals with the current situation in Ukraine. That is, I want to consider the question - Is post-Maidan Ukraine an independent country?

Last month, Olena Zelenska, Ukraine's first lady, said in an interview to the BBC that Ukrainians would be in mortal danger without further Western aid; see below a citation from the BBC website. 

Olena Zelenska has warned that Ukrainians are in "mortal danger" of being left to die if Western countries don't continue their financial support.

But when a country - without financial support from other countries - is in mortal danger, that means that this country cannot exist independently.

And all actions of the post-Maidan authorities confirm this conclusion. Zelenskyy has constantly been rushing all over the world, begging for financial and other support (and before Zelenskyy, Poroshenko constantly did this). If some countries do not provide such support to the Ukrainian authorities, that causes real hysteria and cries in Kyiv - “We have been betrayed!”

Lack of independence of present Ukraine can be seen in both domestic and foreign policy.

For example, Joe Biden openly told how he had achieved the removal of Viktor Shokin, who had served as the Attorney General of Ukraine, from his post. See below the citation with a translation of Biden’s words on the website of the Ukrainian version of Voice of America. 

I said, I'm leaving in 6 hours; if your Attorney General isn't fired by then, you don't get any money. And that son of a bitch was fired.

And in November last year, Davyd Arakhamia, head of the ruling party faction in the Ukrainian parliament, said that in the spring of 2022, the then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had suggested to the Ukrainian authorities “let’s just wage a war (against Russia)”; see a citation and video below.

Moreover, when we had returned from Istanbul, Boris Johnson came to Kiev and said that we would not sign anything with them - and let’s just wage a war.

Two conclusions can be drawn from the above.

Firstly, the above examples show that present Ukraine is not independent in both internal and international affairs.

Secondly, no one can name cases when something similar to the above took place in Ukraine before the so-called “Revolution of Dignity”. Moreover, it is completely unclear what kind of dignity can be found in a country in which, for example, a foreign politician dismisses its Attorney General.