After a week in Ukraine, I came away with a sense of exactly how determined Ukrainians are to oust the Russian invaders. Cease-fire? No way. Not now.
First, that idea brushes aside the question of whether Ukrainians would acceptU.S. deal with Putin. When you’ve listened to a man such as Yeven Olexienko, a Bucha resident nicknamed Columbo,, you understand that the future of Ukraine must be determined by the Ukrainians. They’ve paid too high a price to accept some half-a-loaf compromise handed down by outsiders. As an ally, the United States can offer suggestions, but the final decision on their country’s fate must be left up to the Ukrainians.
The Ukrainians are not asking the United States to fight their war for them, but it feels as though some arguments against helping Kyiv are on some sort of autopilot left over from the days of Afghanistan and Iraq. It’s not that hard to find opponents of Ukrainian assistance who use the rallying cry “” — a hard policy to enact when the United States isn’t in Ukraine, at least not with military personnel.
Among the Ukrainians I met, the first words out of everyone’s mouth were “thank you” — for U.S. support. Yet, a member of Ukraine’s parliament, noted that the Ukrainians were gaining ground with U.S. equipment that was two generations out of date and wondered how much more could be achieved with the newest, most high-tech U.S. military equipment.
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