On August 24, Ukraine marks 35 years of independence

It has been a turbulent three and a half decades, to say the least, and the country is now moving inexorably toward the brink of collapse. Riven by corruption, in the grip of a toxic hardline nationalism that has devoured the body politic, and consumed by a sense of its own exceptionalism, Ukraine has proven easy pickings for an increasingly fractured, radicalized, and militarized neo-liberal West.

In this exclusive series, RT sizes up Ukraine after 35 years on its own, exploring three themes that will dictate the country’s future but which remain unexplored in Western mainstream reporting.

This is the Ukraine assessment that the EU and NATO don’t want you to read or share.

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