One of Russia's goals is to draw global attention away from the war in Europe, says Ukraine's president.

The Israel-Gaza war is “taking away the focus” from the conflict in Ukraine, the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted.

He said this was “one of the goals” of Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

And he denied that fighting in Ukraine had reached a stalemate, despite a recent assessment to this effect by the country’s top military general.

Ukraine’s counter-offensive in the south has so far made little headway.

This has prompted fears of war fatigue among Kyiv’s Western allies, with suggestions of growing reluctance in some capitals to continue giving Ukraine advanced weapons and funds.

  • @EvergreenGuru@lemmy.worldEnglish
    -104•1 year ago

    It’s best that this conflict ends sooner rather than later. I’ve heard that Ukraine is outnumbered 3 to 1 and is sending injured soldiers and teenagers to the front lines. There’s no hope of them winning. Hindsight is 20/20 and it’s clear that the Ukrainians’ best option would’ve been to surrender in February 2022 and negotiate a peace agreement when they still had some bargaining power. Now they have none and this guy will go down in shame as Ukraine’s worst leader.

    • BombOmOmEnglish
      44•1 year ago

      They did have a peace agreement after Russia invaded…in 2014. Russia was handed Crimea. Yet, Appeasing dictators was proven yet again to not work. So, today they defend themselves from the invader.

      We must continue to support them, we must continue to ensure Russia does not win their war of conquest.

      • @EvergreenGuru@lemmy.worldEnglish
        -8•1 year ago

        You’ve lost the plot. More weapons can’t solve a lack of soldiers. Unless Western Europe/NATO plan to start WW3, the outcome has been decided. The humane thing isn’t to cheer for more war, but to understand that cheering for war itself was a mistake.

        We were told Ukraine could win. We were told wrong. The people who gave us this false impression also told us we’d win the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Last I checked, those wars didn’t result in the victory we were promised, either.

        • @Habahnow@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          7•1 year ago

          Every gun and dollar given to Ukraine is a gun and dollar used against Russia, one of the US’s most obnoxious enemies. Every resource that Russia has to spend in the war is more expensive for them than it is for us, which will give them less resources to spend on being a pain to the US. Ukraine has almost no reason not to fight since losing means a loss of their country anyways, we could either take advantage of this opportunity or we can wait until Ukraine is weaker.

          • @kd637_mi@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            6•1 year ago

            At least this take is honest about the disregard for human lives as long as it furthers the interests of the US.

            • BombOmOmEnglish
              0•1 year ago

              The better option would be to not help Ukraine and allow them to be steamrolled by a genocidal Russia? That is somehow better for Ukraine? They are fighting for their lives, we must continue to give them the tools to not be massacred by the invader.

    • Infiltrated_ad8271
      18•1 year ago

      There is a war of misinformation and propaganda (on both sides), the " I’ve heard" are especially worthless.

    • Uvine_UmarylisEnglish
      16•1 year ago

      C’mon, you couldn’t even TRY to go beyond the script?!?! 🤣🤣🤣

      • @TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.idEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Unfortunately you don’t have to look very hard around here to find them. Lemmy is absolutely swarming with paid propagandists from the usual suspect countries.

    • AdeptusPrimarisEnglish
      -4•1 year ago

      Wasn’t that peace deal more in ukraine’s favour at the time? And then their western allies ordered them to refuse it?