Yuriy Taranuha,
Taras Shevchenko University employee
“Formally, Ukraine is united, but in reality it’s not. And as long as it is ruled by the current president and government, nothing will change. To change something for the good, we should change the government and it should be pro-Ukrainian.”
Ihor Psaryk,
physicist
“For now, it’s every man for himself. There is a separation between people and the country. I’m a patriot of Ukraine, but it seems that it won’t work. In Soviet Union times, there was a huge industrial country with its values and perspectives. I’m not campaigning for the Soviet Union, but we also need an idea. Ukraine needs a national idea and targets, and maybe then it would be united.”
Valentyna Kanarska,
civil servant
“For now, the situation is critical. People became more selfish. It’s not the situation that I would like to see. To change something we should start from ourselves, but government participation is much needed.”
Oksana Nadtoka,
employee of Tarasa Shevchenko University
“I think that the situation is obviously bad. We need to share common values – cultural, historical, and human.”
Mariya Iyevgenina,
student
“I think that our nation is quite scattered. When you go to the West, it seems like people are not very happy to see you. A friend of mine from Dnipropetrovsk had some difficulties attending a university in Lviv. But everything is up to the people. Maybe in some time it will change.”
