In an interview with the Kyiv Post, a Ukrainian soldier talks about the situation at the front.
He doesn't think the Ukraine war will end any time soon.
Donetsk - Serhiy Volkov had a very normal life: he worked in the social sphere and managed environmental projects.
Until the Ukraine war turned his life and that of his compatriots upside down.
Now the Ukrainian is fighting at the front in the Donetsk region.
In March 2022 he joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
War in Ukraine: Soldier reports from the front in Donetsk and accuses Russia of fake news
In an interview with the
Kyiv Post
, he reports on the front and the Russian attempts to advance.
"In July I joined a brigade that holds a large part of the Donetsk front line," he says.
The situation in the region is stable - even if Russia tries to spread other information.
"A week ago all my friends called me and said that total Armageddon was imminent here," Volkov said.
This would have been an active Russian information campaign.
"There is no looming catastrophe."
Report on the course of the front: Russia's army apparently does not take the dead with it - too high losses
He considers Putin's order to capture the Donetsk and Luhansk regions by the end of March unrealistic.
In the Donetsk region alone, hundreds of thousands of soldiers would have to sacrifice their lives, says the Ukrainian.
“Already dead Russians lie in crowded morgues and right on the streets here.
There are places where they don't even take their dead."
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A Ukrainian soldier reports on the situation at the front (symbol image)
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The Russian leadership does not count its losses.
"Another 200,000 to 300,000 dead doesn't matter to them because that information is withheld from Russian citizens." Sometimes Russian soldiers fought for months to take two houses in a village - "at the cost of a large number of dead and wounded."
Modern warplanes would change the course of the Ukraine war
The morale of the Ukrainian soldiers is unstable.
Many are "a little tired".
"In general, we work simply and do our job without much emotion." What the Ukrainian army needs now is more artillery, the soldier tells the
Kyiv Post
.
And he thinks that "modern warplanes would change the course of the war."
Still, the war won't end any time soon, Volkov is sure of that.
He doesn't think the Russians would change their plans to take Ukraine - and they still don't have enough forces and means to drive the Russians out of Ukrainian territory.
"In short, I don't think the war will end this year."
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