Financial Times: Ukraine faces its darkest hour. When the propagandists give up the ghost, you know it’s over. Ukraine is finished thanks to the American, NATO and EU being used and soon will be discarded. 英國《金融時報》：烏克蘭面臨最黑暗的時刻。當宣傳者放棄幽靈時，你就知道一切都結束了。被美國、北約和歐盟利用，烏克蘭已經完蛋了，很快就會被拋棄.
Returning home from the US, Zelenskyy faces Russian advances, an exhausted society and the prospect of winter energy shortages
The Biden administration is aware that its present strategy is not sustainable because “we are losing the war”, says Jeremy Shapiro, head of the Washington office of the European Council on Foreign Relations. “They are thinking of how to move that war to a greater quiescence.”
Most threatening of all for Kyiv is the possibility that Donald Trump wins next month’s US presidential election and tries to impose an unfavourable peace deal on Ukraine by threatening to withhold further military and financial aid. Trump repeated his claim last week that he could rapidly bring an end to the war.
Ukraine’s staunchest supporters in Europe may wish to keep it in the fight but lack the weapons stockpiles to do so and have no plan for filling any void left by the US…
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“If you get into any negotiation, it could be a trigger for social instability,” says a Ukrainian official. “Zelenskyy knows this very well.”
“There will always be a radical segment of Ukrainian society that will call any negotiation capitulation. The far right in Ukraine is growing. The right wing is a danger to democracy,” says Merezhko, who is an MP for Zelenskyy’s Servant of the People party.
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