In the southeast front, Ukraine – The largest underground hospital in Ukraine is an amazing wooden underground Warren and high -tech medical machinery. More than 4,300 square feet of operations rooms, a ICU, bedrooms, nursing rooms and even a small gym, the two floors underground.
Not far from the southeast front line, this extraordinary installation is a monument to ingenuity and Ukrainian resistance. We are witnessing an ambulance that arrives from the front with wounded soldiers. One of the men is visibly distressed. We take your commander aside
“He lost three friends in an unmanned aircraft strike,” says the commander. “One was a relative.”
Ukrainian soldiers with the 33rd separate mechanized brigade obtain training in case of a gas attack during military training on March 13, 2025 in DNIPROPETROVSK, Ukraine. Ukraine has agreed to a proposal backed by the United States for a high fire of 30 days, and Russia has not yet issued an official response. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
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I take my opportunity to ask if all this sacrifice seems to be worth it, now that they cannot count on US support for much longer.
“If we lose the support, we will fight with our naked hands,” he says.
I ask him what he does of Putin’s peace talk. Series. Everyone here laughs at that.
“Putin lies,” he tells me. “I’ve been fighting since 2014, and I know the price of Putin wars.”
Do you worry that Trump listens to Putin’s lies?
Ukrainian soldiers with the 33rd separate mechanized brigade obtain training in case of a gas attack during military training on March 13, 2025 in DNIPROPETROVSK, Ukraine. Ukraine has agreed to a proposal backed by the United States for a high fire of 30 days, and Russia has not yet issued an official response. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
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“He is the US president. He was chosen. It can’t be stupid. “
I ask him what he did with the Oval Office meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky two weeks ago, which ended in a largely reported shout match. The commander is careful with his words.
“Maybe this is the way it operates,” he says. “And we don’t see the overview.”
No one here will openly criticize Donald Trump. They want the war to end. And they only know that he can really help them finish it. But they are not about to give up what they have fought so hard.
However, how the end looks, nobody knows.
