{"id":228291,"date":"2025-07-01T03:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T03:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/228291\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T03:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T03:48:17","slug":"in-ukraine-most-back-negotiations-over-more-fighting-to-end-russias-war-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/228291\/","title":{"rendered":"In Ukraine, most back negotiations over more fighting to end Russia\u2019s war | Russia-Ukraine war News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kyiv, Ukraine <\/strong>\u2013 Halyna is ready to abandon her dreams of returning home in exchange for peace in the rest of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want this nightmare to be over. I don\u2019t want to hear air raid sirens almost every night and read about dead children and people burned alive in their homes almost every morning,\u201d said the 35-year-old who withheld her last name because she \u201cdoesn\u2019t want to sound unpatriotic\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want peace, even if it means we can\u2019t ever go back home,\u201d she told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n

Halyna hails from the southern port of Mariupol, the large Ukrainian city Russia seized in May 2022 after a three-month siege and attacks that killed thousands of people.<\/p>\n

She is among 56 percent of Ukrainians who would agree to a \u201ccompromise\u201d to end Europe\u2019s bloodiest armed conflict since 1945, according to a survey released on Thursday by the Janus Institute for Strategic Studies and Forecasts and the SOCIS Center for Social and Marketing Research, both Kyiv-based pollsters.<\/p>\n

The \u201ccompromise\u201d means that Kyiv would have to agree to Russia\u2019s de facto control of almost a fifth of Ukraine\u2019s territory.<\/p>\n

Another 16.6 percent of those polled would agree to a freeze along the current front lines, and only 12.8 percent want Kyiv to fight until it wins back all the land Russia has seized since 2014.<\/p>\n

\"INTERACTIVE-WHO[Al Jazeera]
\n\u2018Nothing to go back to\u2019<\/p>\n

The lost fifth of Ukraine\u2019s territory includes Mariupol, where Halyna lived with her 11-year-old daughter, Alina, and husband, Serhiy, who was killed in March 2022 by a blast while searching for food in a bombed-out grocery shop.<\/p>\n

Halyna and Alina fled three days later with a single bag of clothes, documents and toys after their next-door neighbours, an elderly couple, agreed to give them a ride.<\/p>\n

It took them three days of hours-long queues, searches and interrogations that she described as humiliating at Russian checkpoints to reach the Kyiv-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia.<\/p>\n

Six days after their escape, their nine-storey apartment building was struck by a Russian bomber.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realised we have nothing to go back to,\u201d Halyna said.<\/p>\n

The growing readiness for a compromise indicated in the poll reflects a nationwide realisation that even with Western military aid, Ukrainian forces are unable to kick the Russians out.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost Ukrainians do support the negotiations through compromise to end the war,\u201d Volodymyr Fesenko, head of the Kyiv-based Penta think tank, told Al Jazeera. \u201cWe understand that we can\u2019t count only on the military way to end the war.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Ready for a drone to fly in\u2019<\/p>\n

The war uprooted one in four Ukrainians \u2013 10.6 million people \u2013\u00a0 who either became internally displaced or fled abroad, according to the United Nations refugee agency.<\/p>\n

Many of those whose homes have remained intact and out of Russian hands are war-weary to the point of physical and mental exhaustion.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery night I get ready for a Shaheed [an Iranian-designed Russian drone] to fly into my apartment,\u201d Oleksiy Svidirenko, a 51-year-old bank clerk, told Al Jazeera while describing his \u201cparanoia\u201d.<\/p>\n

He meticulously checks that all of his documents, savings, family photos and hard drives are packed in an emergency bag that sits all night next to the front door of his fourth-floor apartment in a five-storey building in central Kyiv.<\/p>\n

His wife and son fled to the Czech Republic in 2022, but Svidirenko \u2013 along with every Ukrainian man of fighting age \u2013 cannot join them.<\/p>\n

He keeps a COVID-19 epidemic-era mask to protect himself from the dust raised by a possible explosion, has a flashlight ready in case of a blackout and makes sure a pair of shoes with thick soles are under his bed in case glass shards litter the floor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s my personal little superstition \u2013 if all of that is ready, I can sleep fine,\u201d he said with a nervous laugh. \u201cSome of my friends do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Existential shortages\u2019<\/p>\n

A psychologist says the wartime hardships Ukrainians face could be best described as \u201cshortages\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe war has taken a lot from us, leaving holes of various sizes in the daily life,\u201d Svitland Chunikhina, vice president of the Association of Political Psychologists, a group in Kyiv, told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe largest shortage is safety as well as stability, predictability, justice,\u201d she said. \u201cWe all in Ukraine live like people with disabilities, but our disability is existential.\u201d<\/p>\n

The feeling is exacerbated by the betrayal of the West \u2013 real or imaginary.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody let us down \u2013 [former US President Barack] Obama, [current US President Donald] Trump, Europe,\u201d Halyna said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump is the worst of them all,\u201d she added. \u201cHe made so many promises he knew he wouldn\u2019t keep.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before his re-election, Trump pledged to end the war \u201cin 24 hours\u201d, pointing to his alleged clout with Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

After months of attempts to start a peace process, Trump seems to have given up on the idea.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Trump said at a news conference at the NATO summit in The Hague that his pledge was, \u201cof course, sarcastic\u201d.<\/p>\n

To Fesenko, the biggest problem is that Trump now has \u201cno clear position, no clear understanding of how to end the war\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Ukraine late last year and early this year, there was a moderate optimism about Trump. Now, this mood is gone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think it\u2019s good. There are no heightened expectations regarding Trump. There is a pragmatic understanding that, most likely, the war won\u2019t end soon,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n

Despite the growing doom and gloom among civilians, Ukrainian forces have so far succeeded in containing Moscow\u2019s summer offensive.<\/p>\n

Last week, they prevented a Russian advance in the northern region of Sumy, according to a political analyst fighting in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can say that the enemy began to skid,\u201d Kirill Sazonov wrote on Telegram on Monday.<\/p>\n

This year, Russia has occupied about 5,000sq km (1,930sq miles), or about 1 percent of Ukraine\u2019s territory, according to data analysts.<\/p>\n

The gains pale in comparison with the conquest of 120,000sq km (46,332sq miles) in the first five weeks of the full-scale invasion in 2022 and Ukraine\u2019s recapture of 50,000sq km (19,305sq miles) in the spring of 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyiv, Ukraine \u2013 Halyna is ready to abandon her dreams of returning home in exchange for peace in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[299,12,332,7661,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-228291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-europe","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","12":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114775936566194030","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}