For many people in Ukraine, 2024 started just like 2023 ended — with Russian air assaults and rocket and drone attacks on infrastructure and homes. What’s new is the scale of the bombardment: the Russian military is trying to get past Ukraine’s air defenses by beefing up its firepower.
“The recent attacks and relentless hostilities have left hundreds of thousands of people without electricity and water supplies, at a time when forecasts indicate that temperatures might drop to minus 20 degrees Celsius [minus 4 Fahrenheit] in the coming days,” said the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
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For many people in Ukraine, 2024 started just like 2023 ended — with Russian air assaults and rocket and drone attacks on infrastructure and homes.
Of the Ukrainians polled, 58% said they thought Ukraine should carry on fighting even if the United States, along with some 50 other countries, were to withdraw their support.
Almost one in three said they believed it would be better to cease hostilities if the West gave firm security guarantees, even if the liberation of the occupied regions were to be postponed indefinitely.
In a previous KIIS survey, some 80% said they would not be prepared to accept the permanent surrender of any Ukrainian territory — although forces had already been rationing munition, in particular artillery ammunition, for months because Western powers had supplied far less than promised.
The combat medic, who has been serving in the army for almost two years now, told DW that Ukraine had to produce a lot more munition and weapons by itself.
Like so many others, the 37-year-old has been collecting donations for front-line units in her free time since 2014 when Russia attempted to seize the Donbas region.
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