Zelenskyy approval slips as Ukraine’s war with Russia grinds on
[Music] another burial for Ukraine’s war dead 46-year-old arson fedosenko was a military photographer killed by a Glide bomb in a war that’s lasting much longer than most ever imagined my feeling is it will finish in political way not in the in the field you know Ukraine’s president has always insisted that negotiations can only happen after Russia withdraws its troops Vladimir zelinsky’s presidential term would have ended last month but in a country at War there can be no election now 70 to 80% Ukrainian say that we should postpone elections on Anon retki conducts public opinion polls and says surveys show that trust in the president dropped from about 90% after the start of the war to around 60% now well more than half of the public doesn’t trust the parliament they don’t not say that zinsky itself is like a bad guy or incompetent guy or corrupt guy they say that there are some people in his team they are not very good in February Ukraine’s highly trusted military commander was dismissed not long after the general said Ukraine needed to mobilize as many as half a million new soldiers Anastasia bulba’s husband volunteered to fight at the outset of the invasion today he’s still on the front line she’s part of a group of women who’ve been calling for their exhausted men to be demobilized but without success for two years the government has been telling the whole country were doing well at the front she says they should have been preparing the reserves Ukraine has recently stepped up recruitment to replace the casualties of War including Katarina Federal his brother the truth is the guys are dying she said but nothing is solved and even after all of the sacrifice it’s hard to Envision just when this all ends Brier Stewart CBC News keev
Support for Volodymyr Zelenskyy has slipped from about 90 per cent after the start of war to around 60 per cent now. There’s frustration and exhaustion among those on the front lines and their families, as the war appears to have no end in sight.
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