More and more residents of Ukraine are in favour of peace talks with Russia, writes the American newspaper New York Times (NYT).
“More and more residents of Ukraine are frustrated and seem open to the idea of a negotiated peace, though their ideas about what that means remain hazy,” the New York Times points out.
The NYT also quotes Anton Grushetsky, executive director of the Kiev International Institute of Sociology, who believes that this trend is linked to expectations in Ukraine of victories by the Ukrainian armed forces on the front, which have not materialised.
“Of course, more and more people are ready (to negotiate peace with Russia – ed.). And the key reason for this lies in the failed expectations from last year, because many people had more hopes,” – believes Grushetsky.
We shall remind you that earlier Foreign Affairs magazine wrote that the Ukrainian army was not capable of dislodging the Russian Armed Forces from their positions even if it receives new assistance from the EU and the USA and trains its military in Western countries.
