Summary

Days before the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion, Ukrainians find unity threatened not just by Russia but also shifting U.S. support.

Donald Trump’s false labeling of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a “dictator” has provoked fierce backlash, even from Zelenskyy’s critics, who now rally around him.

With ongoing Russian attacks and Ukrainian forces stretched thin, Trump’s suggestion of a swift end to hostilities raises fears of concessions favoring Russia.

Officials argue that elections amid war would undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty. Many vow to continue resisting, regardless of major foreign policy changes.

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    22 hours ago

    Aside from you turning standard democratic practice in wartime into dictatorship and molehills into mountains, and the general backing that those policies have in Ukrainian society, which is perfectly intact as a polity – you know what’s a fast and easy way for all of it to stop? Russia backing the fuck off into its own territory.

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      22 hours ago

      Suspending and abolish human rights it’s not a standard democratic practice, it’s standard practice for corrupted rulers who seek every mean to get more wealth and power.

      If you were russian and china decides to invade your country would you been fine with russian authorities kidnapping you off the street to fight for their government?

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        21 hours ago

        I don’t know, is China arresting people who protest the war and throwing them at frontlines in Russia? “Front or fifty years of gulag for high treason” kind of voluntary recruitment?