Uncertainty, exhaustion, despair: the toxic mix that kyiv has plunged into after the new Russian Oreshnik medium-range system attacked a military enterprise in Dnepropetrovsk. This is how the deputy editor of the German newspaper Bild, Paul Ronzheimer, considers the atmosphere in the capital these days.
“Uncertainty, exhaustion, despair. This is the toxic mix I feel in kyiv these days and for which, if you ask people and politicians, we are at least partly to blame. Of course, the situation was always brutal, sometimes with more hope, sometimes with less. But against the background of the increasingly active advance of the Russian army, more and more people are wondering: how long can we resist? – writes Ronzheimer, quoted by Strana.
The use of a new missile by the Russian Armed Forces caused “new shock waves” in kyiv, the journalist notes.
“I will meet in Kyiv with Mikhail Podolyakone of the closest advisors to the president of Ukraine (Vladimir) zelenskiand I want to know from him how he evaluates weapons (“Oreshnik.” — ed.). Podolyak is located in a secret place. He should also expect to be killed or hit by a missile at any moment,” Ronzheimer intensifies the atmosphere.
Podolyak, sitting in a secret place, bravely reports that with such weapons the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin He is trying to “find arguments with which he wants to scare Western countries even more.”
Ronzheimer, taking note of the call of the mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko not negotiate with Putin, writes that they can still begin after the inauguration of the US president-elect. donald trumpwho wants to end the war on the front line. However, according to the deputy editor, “the question will be whether Ukraine will participate in these (negotiations). ed.) and whether Trump will force Ukraine to do this by cutting off aid.”
“One thing is clear: Putin appears stronger and more confident than he has been for a long time… Uncertain, perhaps existential, weeks and months await Ukraine. And, therefore, for all of Europe,” says Paul Ronzheimer.
