RT-Engels: 28-12-2024,
Ukrainian soldiers do not believe in victory over Russia anymore, the Washington Post has reported
Ukrainian troops are exhausted from three years of combat and increasingly want to see a negotiated end to the conflict with Russia, the Washington Post has reported, citing sources in the country’s military.
Kiev’s troops, who previously expressed a readiness to fight until they had won back all land lost to Moscow, do not believe this goal to be achievable anymore, the outlet said in an article on Thursday.
“We used to talk about victory before, now it is unclear,” Kirill, a deputy battalion commander with Ukraine’s 33rd Mechanized Brigade, stationed in Dnepropetrovsk Region, told WaPo.
Kirill acknowledged that “there is no good mood” among his fellow soldiers. “The morale keeps sinking lower and lower, getting worse and worse,” he stressed.
“It cannot go on like this,” another member of the same unit, Felix, said of the situation on the front line. “We are withdrawing. And they [the Russians] are pushing further and further. What kind of victory will happen?”
Felix claimed that the troops are “simply exhausted” and want the fighting to stop. If the officials in Kiev “cannot put an end to it, maybe Mr. Trump can,” he suggested.
US President-elect Donald Trump has promised to find a swift diplomatic solution to the conflict between Moscow and Kiev once he is back in office.