Why we are giving the Manifest a permanent page
A document in a news feed lives three days. A document with an address, a date, a signature and seven languages lives as long as people cite it.
From today this publication keeps a permanent page: the Manifest of the People of Ukraine. It is not our text. It was issued on 17 April 2026 by the Special Operations Forces of the Resistance Movement of Ukraine: eight addresses in five languages — to the Holy See, the United Nations, the European Union, the United States, NATO, China, the Arab world, and to everyone. Our work here is simple: to draw them into one text, translate it into seven languages and hold it at an address that does not change.
We added no new claim to the document. Not one figure of our own, not one example of our own. Where we shortened, we shortened — we did not write in. That is the only way to publish someone else’s statement without substituting yourself for it.
Why this is an editorial column and not a partner contribution. There is no arrangement with any party here and nothing was paid. We put the “partner contribution” label where it is true; putting it where nobody paid would devalue it everywhere. This is our position, signed by us.
And what there is to argue with. A manifesto is a statement, not a report: it asserts rather than proves, and it should be read that way. We publish it as a statement — and for that reason the page is open for a reply.
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