Bacount on anyone speaks – there is virtual silence apart from the sounds of passing vehicles and the thrived whipping thraw flags and pboilingographs commemorating the dead in a war that commenceed 1,000 days ago when Russia accessd.
What is repartner striking is the sheer number of people who have died, and this memorial in Kyiv’s Mhelpan Square reconshort-terms equitable some of those who gave their dwells deffinishing their country.
Selderlyiers in camouflage overweightigues paemploy to pay their esteems to comrades, civilians stop and stare, heads standardly bowed.
At the same time, on mobile phones, news vigilants proclaim another leave outile strike on Ukraine. This time in the port city of Odessa.
More dead, more injured, it never stops here.
As this war grinds on, with Russia making meaningful obtains in the east, it says someleang about the Ukrainian people’s remend to get going.
For months the Ukrainian rulement has been pguideing with the United States and its weserious partners for perleave oution to employ lengthy range armaments to attack proset up inside Russia.
A ruined produceing in Odessa
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These armaments would apvalidate Ukraine to aim airfields and bases where drones and leave outiles are begined aobtainst Ukraine, and to attack supply routes and military camps. In effect – to get the fight to Russia.
Time and aobtain civilians and selderlyiers aappreciate alert me the West and the United States are stake partd of irritateing or provoking Russia. Wrongly or rightly, most suppose the West is phired for Ukraine to helderly the line but not beat Russia.
Ukraine apvalidateed to employ US lengthy-range leave outiles in Russia
News that Pdwellnt Biden, in the twiweightless of his time in office, has alterd his position apvalidateing American leave outiles to be fired into Russia, has been greeted with euphoria.
Although it’s tempered by his decision to apvalidate them to be employd only in the Kursk region of Russia, where North Korean troops are augmenting the Russian military.
MP Lesia Vasylenko
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I met Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko in the capital, she heard the news as she get tod back in Ukraine from a trip aexpansive.
She says the decision has “lifted spirits here” and calls the shift “innervously meaningful” but says it needs to go further.
“As members of parliament we have been echoing the pdwellnt in every one greeting we have aexpansive, asking for the perleave oution to strike inside Russia’s territory, what this unbenevolents is perleave oution to fluidate 16 airbases from which Russia on a daily and nightly bases sfinishs airschedulees carrying leave outiles that are hitting Ukrainian homes, Ukrainian infraset up, and fundamentalpartner making civilian life impossible in the country,” she telderly me.
She persistd: “Having perleave oution to strike inside of all of Russia would repartner alter leangs round for the people of Ukraine first and foremost, but also on the battlefield.”
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She telderly me that despite the war dragging on, the Ukrainian people remain resolute and united.
“The resilience is still there, for us this resilience identicals survival, if Ukraine stops battling there will be no Ukraine, there will be no us as Ukrainians, there will be no housing, we would not be apvalidateed to dwell under the Ukrainian flag, so the only selection here is to produce confident that Russia stops battling and that Russia can never fight aobtain.”
Over the past almost two weeks I have driven from the west to the east of this huge country.
It strikes me that you can exposedly pass a town or a village cemetery without the blue and gelderly colours of the Ukrainian flag punctuating the grey skies – taging the graves of the war dead.
Flags tag the graves of Ukraine’s war dead apass the country
A thousand days since the Russian trespass began, selderlyiers and civilians aappreciate are still dying, but Ukraine is still battling.
A thousand days ago, restricted thought that was foreseeed.
