Sergii Rudenko

Anatomy of Hate Putin and Ukraine
Stary Lev. Lviv 2024. 170 pages

This is the new book by Ukrainian journalist Sergii Rudenko, author of a political Zelenskyi Biography sold for more than 25 languages.

Russia‘s war against Ukraine is the most important event in the life of President Vladimir Putin. He staked everything on this war: the future of Russia, his political career, his well-being and even his life. Putin‘s hatred of Ukraine rests on a good foundation – the Ukrainophobia that has prevailed in Russia for centuries.

The current master of the Kremlin devoted a third of his life to trying to conquer Ukraine. He has spent 24 years, hundreds of billions of dollars, and the lives of more than 300,000 Russian soldiers to destroy Ukraine. Unsuccessful attempts to change presidents, poiso- ning of political leaders of the Ukrainian state, assassinations and bloody war – Putin is using the entire arsenal of a bloody criminal in the fight against Ukraine.

This book is of course about when, how and why Vladimir Putin launched the largest con- tinental war in Europe since World War II – from a Ukrainian point of view. But it is even more about the pre-history of this decision routing also in Putin’s personal relationship with Ukraine and providing an almost exclusive insights, first-hand information, the backs- tage of Russian politics and events witnessed by the author himself.

Rudenko has been a political journalist in Ukraine since Putin came to power in Russia and even before. Since then he has built up a network for insider and first-hand informati- on, which gives him access to people who know Putin well or who met him directly during their work. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2007-2009) Volodymyr Ohryzko, Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (2006-2010 and 2014-2015) Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, and Russian opposition leader and Putin critic Andrey Piontkovsky participated in the project.

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