'We are ready to die for Ukraine': People united against Russia as Zelenskyy looks to end fighting

On a freezing cold, misty day, tiny groups of radical gather, sometimes hugging, sometimes crying, sometimes conscionable silent.

In beforehand of them, the partition of St Michael's golden-domed monastery successful the centre of Kyiv's aged town.

The walls are present festooned with the faces of thousands of soldiers, each dead, each killed successful this warfare with Russia.

It started arsenic a azygous representation of a fallen worker placed connected the wall. This memorial present stretches into the distance, and there's nary abstraction near but connected the precise apical of the wall.

A cafe idiosyncratic brought retired a ladder truthful a household could scope up and spot their loved one's representation alongside fallen comrades.

A abbreviated region away, a ceremonial procession enters the grounds of the monastery, past the faces connected the partition and into the ornate interior of the monastery's chapel.

Another ceremonial work for a worker killed successful battle, different household near successful grief.

There are truthful galore of these services, and they're truthful communal it's casual to hide different beingness has been lost. This soldier's sanction is Pavlo Verdybida, killed astatine 34 years old.

His comrades stitchery successful the monastery's chapel, holding candles and paying respects.

His champion person Andrii, besides conscionable a young man, besides a soldier, told maine helium excessively is acceptable to dice for Ukraine.

"Our president wants to prevention people, but we are acceptable to dice for Ukraine," helium said.

"They [Russia] destroyed my generation, they destroyed my country, and we are consenting to fight. I anticipation the president makes the close decisions, but immoderate helium decides we volition each respectfully judge it and travel what helium says."

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is looking for a mode to halt the fighting, and helium is acutely alert of the sacrifices truthful galore radical are making.

When we spoke connected Friday, helium made it precise wide to maine that helium doesn't judge immoderate lives mislaid are for nothing.

"I judge that these radical who are nary longer with us, they already person prevailed. Putin... has not realised it yet, but Ukrainians person already won, and Ukrainians who are nary longer with us, they enactment everything they had astatine stake, and they are already winners," helium said.

"Because if Ukrainians had not agreed backmost then, sacrificed their time, their life, their comfort, past Putin would person conquered the full of Ukraine."

This state does not privation that to happen. Ever. And galore present judge the lone mode it volition not is if they person implicit information guarantees.

Russia 'will repetition aggression' with atrocious deal

Dr Hanna Hopko is the co-founder of the International Centre for Ukrainian Victory, and is an adept connected planetary relations.

She says that joining NATO and the information it brings would beryllium bully for Ukraine and so the remainder of Europe.

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"Ukrainians, aft specified a sacrifice, erstwhile astir successful each household we person idiosyncratic either wounded oregon successful the battlefield, oregon helping our equipped forces, truthful we recognize that with a atrocious deal, Russia volition repetition its aggression again," she told me.

"So, this is wherefore the contented of information guarantees is [an] existential one, it's critically important, it's important for each of us, including Europe and NATO."

For now, astatine least, the Ukrainian radical stay agreed against the menace posed by Russia contempt the effect it is having connected the country.

But galore we person spoken to during the 3 weeks we person been present concede that they are bushed and are possibly opening to consciousness that immoderate benignant of bid deal, nevertheless imperfect, whitethorn conscionable beryllium amended than the presumption quo of continuous warring - and the inevitable nonaccomplishment connected the battlefield.