Ukrainian civic leaders, including former political prisoners of the Soviet regime Josef Zissels, Myroslav Marynovych, Mykola Horbal, Larysa Lokhvytska, Oles Shevchenko and Leonid Milyavsky, on June 14 published an open letter to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (The English-language text that follows is from the Ukrainian Canadian Congress Daily Briefing. The open letter is available in the original Ukrainian on Mr. Zissels’ Facebook page.)
We have written this letter in response to recent events that are returning our country to the times of [Viktor] Yanukovych. After the Revolution of Dignity, arbitrariness, selective justice and political persecution were supposed to be gone from Ukraine forever.