Ex-Zelensky aide “declares the nationalist Ukrainian project ‘dead’

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Ukrainian officials privately admit that Russia has the upper hand and Ukraine is suffering horrific losses – BILD editor

Reality is different from public statements, the German journalist who just visited Kiev has said

“While the Ukrainian government paints a rosy picture of the conflict at press conferences, senior officials admit in private that the situation is grim, Paul Ronzheimer, a deputy editor-in-chief at the German outlet BILD, said on Friday.

“Ronzheimer had just spent three days in Ukraine, meeting with Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and other senior government and military officials, he wrote on X …

“‘Their statements match less and less the picture that is officially painted in press conferences and interviews, most recently by Zelensky’, he wrote …

“… [The] German journalist noted that everyone he spoke with said that time was on Moscow’s side and that ‘stories from the front are almost unbearable’ …

“The German journalist’s revelations match the tone of several Ukrainian MPs who spoke to The Times of London …

“In an article published on Friday, Roman Kostenko – a member of the Verkhovna Rada’s committee for national security, defense and intelligence – said a victory on the battlefield was ‘extremely unlikely’ …

“Another MP, Svyatoslav Yurash, described the fighting as ‘painful’ and said the Ukrainians should ‘hope for the best but prepare for the worst …’”

https://x.com/ronzheimer/status/1738116354203369589?s=20
https://swentr.site/news/589551-ukrainian-officials-admit-losing/

 

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‘Zelensky wants a repressive, mono-ethnic, state that treats minorities as second-class’ — ex-Zelensky aide Aleksey Arestovich

Arestovich slams Ukraine as a country ‘where freedoms are suppressed’ and predicts a continuing mass desertion from the army

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Ex-Zelensky aide Aleksey Arestovich “declared the nationalist Ukrainian project ‘dead’, stating that Kiev is unable to find people willing to fight for it.”

“People of cultures other than Ukrainian, be they Russian or something else, do not want to fight for a monoethnic Ukraine because Kiev discriminates against them, [he said].

“[He added that] the same is true for people who live in territories under Russian control, which Kiev wants to take back by force.

“Ukraine ‘has nothing to offer to the residents of Donbass and Crimea, except for a second-rate citizen status,’ he said.

“Meanwhile, Ukrainians who support the monoethnic project may have other issues with the government, be it a grudge over an unfair economic system or lack of political liberties.  

“‘We live in a country of prohibitions, a country where freedoms are suppressed … where you are caught and forced into the army. Who would want to fight for such a nation?” Arestovich asked.”

“He claimed that 30% to 70% of troops on the front line refuse to go into combat and seek opportunities to desert …”

https://swentr.site/russia/589526-arestovich-monoethnic-ukraine-dead/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksii_Arestovych