Zelensky’s workplace has rejected a German report that he’s contemplating a localised ceasefire as “faux”.
Nonetheless, Czech President Petr Pavel – who has been a vocal supporter of Ukraine – mentioned this week that a part of Ukraine would most likely stay “briefly” occupied, probably for years.
Olga Rudenko believes that, for many Ukrainians, it’s nonetheless “too delicate and unimaginable to concede something even briefly to Russia” – even when that dialog is occurring someplace, privately, inside authorities.
“It’s not that Ukrainians are grasping concerning the territory,” she says.
“We are able to’t depart our individuals there, underneath Russian management and sentence them to these horrors,” referring to persistent allegations of Russian battle crimes.
That sentiment was echoed by 31-year-old Dmytro, whose face and arms have been badly burned when he was hit by a Russian drone.
“We is not going to give up our territories, for which so many individuals have been fallen,” he advised the BBC in Kyiv.
“If we ended the battle at this stage, what have been we combating for then? What for did all our males, our comrades die for?”
A truce, he believes, would merely give Russia time to recuperate and Zelensky has likewise warned towards a “frozen” battle.
Dmytro is already planning his return to the entrance line to battle alongside his comrades: “I can’t retreat, I might be there till my final breath.”