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The Great War: A View From The Ground In Ukraine

The Truth of the Matter

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Are You Going to Say Anything to the Ukranians?

i found the ucranians to be pretty humble about it. They're happy when they make gains, but they know that this is going to be a really long, slow grind of a war. And so and theye, they've kind of been through this before,. of like, don't get cake, because, you know, anything could happen at any moment. i mentioned earlier that i had interviewed the defence minister reznikov about three weeks before the war started. He told me i was buying into the hysteria of my the american government. This was something that the ukranian government had been saying over and over again, trying to calm their people down.

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