Valentyna Sereda
lecturer at Taras Shevchenko National University
“It is very good that they withdrew from Debaltseve so that more people are not killed…Our strategy should be development of the military complex, a change of military leaders.”
Petro Bonyuk
retiree, former actor for National Academic Theatre of Opereta
“They should have withdrawn from Debaltseve earlier. We do everything late. They took a very right decision yesterday when called for the deployment of United Nations peacekeepers. People in eastern Ukraine suffer from hunger, coldness.”
Anna Zorba
student
“A peace treaty was signed, everyone agreed, all was ok, but nothing stopped. Many of us have relatives in Russia. On the one hand, peaceful Russians have nothing to do with it. We should not argue with them, but it is so difficult to have a good attitude to the country which started this when our young guys are dying.”
Tamara Titareva
retiree
“Only military action against this aggressor. You see they are not adequate. Even on the highest level, their Vitaly Churkin sits in the United Nations and simply lies. I think our servicemen were in Debaltseve to the last moment so the Russians could destroy the infrastructure there.”
Larysa Balashkevych
mother, engineer technologist
“On one hand, the guys were standing there, protecting. They are great, our defenders. My soul aches for them. But on the other hand, if we do not have now forces to defend these positions, we must move away a little to gain strength and hit with a bang. Losing a battle does not mean losing the war. We, ordinary people, should not panic first of all. The guys need our support. They defend the whole country there. We should defend our country.”
