Most Ukrainians do not hope for an improvement in the war situation

– International news – Tasnim News Agency, the German Focus magazine wrote in an article: In Ukraine, the hope that the war situation with Russia will soon improve significantly found, is decreasing. New polls show that many people in the country have a bleak view of their country’s future. Meanwhile, there are hopes among supporters of Ukraine that a vote in the US House of Representatives on Saturday evening to solve the blockade of several months of arms aid to this country. According to the Financial Times, however, the mood among local people in Ukraine is different. Vasyl Romaniuk, an official at the European Embassy in Kyiv, says that the hopes And he keeps his expectations high. However, according to him, not all Ukrainians share this view.

According to him, regardless of this, Russia’s acceleration in the third year of the war has left its effect on this country for a long time.

Romaniuk says: It is an emotional and psychological rollercoaster, and the outlook has been dark since last fall. According to him, the confidence of the Ukrainian people increased for a short period of time with military successes every few months, including preventing the capture of Kiev, counterattacks in Kharkiv and Kherson, and the destruction of important ships in the Russian Black Sea Fleet. >

He emphasized: When people read about successful campaigns every now and then, their optimism is revived. But then, when they read about all that our army has lost, they retreat again.

The report continues: Now that the Russians are clearly on the offensive And the greatest advance is yet to be made, the mood and situation are changing dangerously. Surveys by the International Institute of Sociology in Kyiv show that pessimism is on the rise.

Last December, one in five Ukrainians polled said that in the next ten years they would be in “a country with “A ruined economy that many people are fleeing”, while in October 2022 this figure was only one in twenty. This is because, at the beginning of the war, many Ukrainians believed that the West recognized Russia’s imperial nature and would provide Ukraine with all the weapons it needed. But now it seems that’s no longer the case.

One in five Ukrainians surveyed now think the Ukrainian government will be forced to cede territory to Russia, Hrushetsky told the Financial Times. deliver – in May 2022, only five percent of those surveyed were concerned that it would come to this.

However, the majority of Ukrainians still support the military, says Evgenia Belizniuk, director of a leading Ukrainian pollster. They believe because they see war as vital to their personal existence. “Most Ukrainians see Russia as a killer and the only way to deal with it is to fight,” says Blizhnyuk.

The Financial Times reports that this support also extends to soldiers on the front lines. A soldier fighting in the disputed Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine has told an American newspaper that he and his colleagues are “morally and physically exhausted.” But what keeps them in the war is that volunteer civilians “will do anything for the victory of Ukraine.” He said: Nothing in the world can demotivate us soldiers, when we see how much suffering the Russians have brought us.

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