It has been fought for generations — from Cossack state-building competitions to the short existence of the UNR, whose experience was preserved and developed in 1991. After 2014, independence ceased to be a formal declaration and became a daily obligation, and from 2022 it became a matter of the survival of the nation.
This past shows that freedom is not given — it is gained, and from then on it needs daily protection. Everyone without exception. But again, what is independence? Independence is not held on holidays or dates on the calendar, it is not measured by parades and inscriptions on T-shirts.
Independence means freedom from external control and the ability to determine our own future—from what policies we pursue, to what risks we take and what victories we win. We dream of a Ukraine that does not need other people's guarantees of security, that decides for itself who and when to sit at the negotiating table, that dictates rules, not fulfills them. Where citizens do not wait for the actions of the authorities, but participate in the common cause; where there is no cult of leaders and excuses, but there is a willingness of everyone to take their burden. Where any enemy will think three times before attacking, because he will know that he will get repulsed for it. This is a Ukraine that does not adapt, but shapes the agenda; which knows how to act quickly and decisively, because it knows that there is no other way. You can say that it is too ambitious, but the truth is that we have no other options.
Everything falls into the background when it comes to the physical survival of the state and its citizens. We don't have a second chance. We must be flexible and constantly adapt to a changing enemy. A minimum of words and a maximum of action, rigid pragmatism and an absolute priority of survival.
Our mission every day, not just on August 24, is to build this independence. Not loud speeches, but routine work — training, production, experiments, constant attempts to improve even what is already working. Our KPIs are a destroyed enemy tank by a Ukrainian drone, a destroyed enemy REB system, videos with eliminated occupiers, which return meaning to our training and work of engineers. It is these results that give the impetus to move forward and gnaw your right to the future. Our goal is not one-off acts of revenge, but the systematic destruction of the enemy by technology transformed into an exact science. We want to do it better, bigger and more effective, because that's the only way to make justice inevitable. And so we say: the sacrifices of those who died for the freedom of Ukraine were not in vain.
History has shown that no one else will build us a secure future. Independence means the ability to decide for ourselves how and where we defend ourselves. We have this right only when we take responsibility for its establishment. Are you with us?
