Why Ukraine Matters to You, 2 - VIKTOR KRAVCHUK

 Why Ukraine Matters to You, 2

VIKTOR KRAVCHUK
AUG 7, 2025

This is part 2 of our three-part series called Why Ukraine Matters.

Because we’ve already been “too long” in the headlines, and this is the right time for us to remember why this country matters.

The first part was about “us,” about humanity as a whole, but this one is about you.

Why Ukraine Matters to Humanity
VIKTOR KRAVCHUK
AUG 4
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Because you’re here reading this, and it means this war reached you.

Maybe you felt something shift inside that you couldn’t name it, but you just knew it mattered.

You had the impression that something in this fight belongs to you. And you’re right, because it really does.

PART II- WHY UKRAINE MATTERS TO YOU

You don’t have to be Ukrainian to carry Ukraine in you.
But you already knew I would say that.

You carry our flag, you have the sticker, you talk about Ukraine with your friends and family, you send me those beautiful messages every day here…

Ukraine is part of your mind. Part of your life. But it didn’t come from politics or values you consciously chose.

The reason Ukraine matters to you goes deeper than you think. About who you are before you even think about what you would choose to think.

Ukraine is a reflection of you.

We are what lives most viscerally inside you.

It’s not what you “believe” is worth defending, but what your humanity indicates is the right way to go before you could even elaborate it logically.

I’m not saying that your support is merely emotional. Of course there’s a lot of emotions involved, love and hate, for example, at their extremes.

But what I’m trying to name is something that precedes your own emotions.

Something beneath belief, beneath logic. Something like a kind of “instinctual knowing,” the place inside you that reacts before thought arrives.

The part of you that would defend your child before you knew what was happening.

The part of you that doesn’t wait to decide whether it’s “worth it.”

The purest level of your nature. The one you always return to even when you don’t want to look.

I am trying to say that Ukraine does not matter to you on the grounds that you are a generous person.

You definitely are, of course.

But we are not having this talk for so long simply because you show virtuous qualities.

What moves you is that there’s something inside you that knows that standing by our side is a matter of self-preservation.

By instinct.

Just like the mothers have it to hold their children safe no matter what.

Every mother in nature, every species.

There’s nothing more sacred. Life is the reason we resist, the reason we endure.

And when you see what is happening in Ukraine, you don’t sympathize with us because we look brave.

This isn’t because you like our colors, our sunflowers, our watermelons. Not even for our courage.

You’re with us because your instinct tells you that we are the right side in this insanity.

Something inside you knows what Russia represents today.

And you don’t need to see our ruins to know they’re openly destroying the world we all need to live in.

The world where life is still something sacred.

Where we raise our children with hope and we’re allowed to imagine a future.

Where life is still worth living.

Ukraine matters to you because we are still fighting for that future.
For the only possible future.
For life.
For your life.

For a life in a world where we will be anxious to live the next day, offering the best of ourselves and our talents to the planet, not just merely survive.

For the only possible version of life, which is when love deals the cards.

You know that the only thing you will leave after you die is the love you carry today.

Just as we know that too.

Instinctively.

You don’t carry Ukraine in your heart because you decided to.

You carry it because we were already there even before you had the chance to choose.

Everything only to explain why Ukraine matters to you:

It matters because Ukraine is you.

Ukraine is your instinct to protect what still deserves to live.

Ukraine matters to you because you recognize the line between what protects life and what poisons it.

You don’t stand with us because we’re brave.

You stand with us because you are.

And if every revolution starts inside us, then we are in a good place.

People like you are the reason we still have a chance.

If there's still hope, it's thanks to people like you.