Losing the war, with a broken society, it’s way past time for Zelensky to sign up for peace.
We are a little over twenty days away from the 4-year mark in the Russia-Ukraine war.
It’s important to say that the Ukrainian forces have fought bravely, even if doomed from the start, against a much stronger, nuclear-armed enemy.
But it’s also time to say that the Kiev regime leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, must sign the peace now, even having to relinquish territory he still controls in the Donetsk region.
Everyone following the war knows by now that Russian forces are maneuvering towards the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration, the last Ukrainian bastions in Donetsk.
We’ve seen this playbook dozens of times: Russians will approach the fortified cities, avoid head-on confrontation, but rather encircle them from several directions, cutting the supply lines – all the while using their superior artillery, missile, and drone power to attrit the defensive forces until they will retreat, surrender, or die.
It’s true that these conquests may take several months – but unlike previous years, Ukrainian citizens are now in the cold and dark, with no expectation of improvement.
Ukrainians wage war ‘like firefighters’ putting out fires one after the other – when they can.
Vladyslav Bashchevanzhy, drone battalion in the 260th brigade: “’A battalion is supposed to have around 500 soldiers. In reality, we’re lucky if we have 100’, he said. ‘Out of those 100, perhaps only 50 are actually combat-ready — those not wounded or exhausted’.
Draft dodging and desertion, two issues that Ukraine has struggled with since 2024, have only exacerbated the shortages. Ukraine’s new defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, recently said that two million Ukrainians were “wanted” for avoiding military service, while 200,000 soldiers were absent without official leave.”
Yes, you read it right: two million Ukrainian draft dodgers, and 200,000 soldiers AWOL.
Time to sue for peace.
On the home front, Ukrainian cities now are left in the cold and dark, with no perspective of improvement.
ABC News reported:
“This winter, the citywide hum of thousands of generators has dominated the soundtrack — a ‘modern symphony’, as Ivan Stupak, a former officer in the Security Service of Ukraine, described it to ABC News from Kyiv — as Ukraine withers Moscow’s attempt to collapse the national energy grid.
Major cities are now regularly thrust into darkness by rolling blackouts affecting hundreds of thousands — sometimes even millions — of people, amid heavy snow and temperatures well below freezing.”
“Mayor Vitali Klitschko urged residents on Jan. 9 to temporarily leave the city if they could. The mayor later said that some 600,000 people subsequently departed — around 20% of Kyiv’s official pre-war population of just under 3 million people.”
Read: EVACUATION- Kiev Mayor, Former Boxer Champ Klitschko Says 600,000 Have Left Cold and Dark Ukrainian Capital in January.
Residents of Kiev blocked the Kharkov Highway due to a prolonged power outage.
Residents of the microdistrict are crossing the road in an organized column and immediately returning, thereby blocking traffic. pic.twitter.com/TgsaBkwnup
— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) February 1, 2026
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