Or do they?
So, the Czech media bring up a poll among 601 people conducted by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology that says 54% of Ukrainians donāt want to cede Donbas to Russia. 69% think that Russia wants to genocide the Ukrainians and take away their statehood. 83% think that Russia wants to achieve greater goals than just the takeover of Donbas. 3/4 think that the Ukrainian military is able to hold back the Russians. They believe Russia is advancing slowly with huge losses, and will eventual exhaust itself.
601 in a country that had like 30 – 40 million people before the war (at least officially because Zelensky refused to conduct a census) seems kinda low. Any marketing research here in Czechia gathers like 3,000 respondents. But Ukraine is fucked anyway. The more they continue this war, the worse it will get, the more land will they lose, the more people will leave. In fact, they shouldnāt even have started this in the first place. šš
The Russians are gonna step up the pressure, gradually. Ukraine failed to accept Russiaās demands in Istanbul, Russia changed its strategy. Ukraine kept attacking Russian refineries, now Kiev is freezing. Russia will gradually increase the cost until Ukraine agrees to the demands Russia made clear and did not really change for years. I heard the opinion that Zelensky is purposefully dragging this until the very end and then he will flee to London, and head government in exile, Ukraine be damned. šš
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