The goal of putin is to destroy Ukraine and he has done a great at it. There is a large chance, that we won't survive as a country after this war. Our economy is in ruins, our demography is in ruins, entire parts of our country is in ruins, our energy infrastructure is in ruins, our people are traumatized, millions have left and hundreds of thousands more will leave after borders will be open. God knows how many people are having PTSD, hundreds of thousands of veterans that simply won't have support from the government that can't afford it and doesn't have necessary structures in place to even process it. Every family has someone serving, the death toll is huge, every day people die defending our country. Every night russians fly rockets/drones into apartments, killing famalies. Even before 2022, even before 2014, almost eveyone in my school wanted to move away and live in Europe. Right now, the situation with younger generation is catastrophic and parents do everything they can to move their kids away from this country. I read the interview, in western Ukraine feom the class of 30+ children, 30 rose their hands up that have plans to leave this country. Even in bast case scenario, when get a ceasefire, the unity will collapse and we will spiral into every possible crisis. The only thing that can save our country is European interventions and large European army that will protect Ukraine. That is it, if it won't happen, our country will die. I am not saying that our country will be occupied by russia, it won't but there is no future here. Only misery. More on reddit.com

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