When the Russian artillery envelope exploded next to the 36-year-old Serhii when he occupied the front in Donetsk 19 months ago, she almost tore off both legs.
More than a dozen operations later, with the help of a cage-like bracket, he can finally get into his lower left leg on his feet-a 15-centimeter piece of the bone has disappeared.
In view of the tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers who were killed in the defense of their country in the last three years of the war, he was happy.
“I have a child and I became a disabled veteran so that our country and my child could live and feel safe instead of waiting for a rehabilitation clinic in Kyiv, Ukraine.
“Of course we want security guarantees for our country,” Serhii told CBC News.
Whether US President Donald Trump has become an existential question for all Ukrainians – especially for those who have brought immense personal victims to stop the aggression in Russia since his invasion exactly three years ago.
So far, however, Trump has not made any specific suggestions about which post -war the United States made available to Ukraine. He also did not point out which concessions, if at all, expect the Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Putin’s army now controls around 20 percent of the Ukrainian area, and US officials have repeatedly said that Ukraine will reject some of them – or maybe everything – to end the war on what most Ukrainians are opposite.
Instead, most of the public comments from Trump were trying to disparage Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and describe him as a “dictator”, who criticized his leadership qualities and sophisticated (critics “) in exchange for further military in Ukraine Support.
Other soldiers in the Kyiv Rehabilitation Clinic said Putin would never say or do what he says.
“I consider Trump’s position as a mistake,” said a 42-year-old soldier who carries out the call sign “Historian”.
“People who commit war crimes every day cannot be familiar.”
(As in the usual practice, most Ukrainian soldiers may not use their full names in media interviews.)
Ukraine will not be forced into deal: Zelenskyy
Russian troops were accused
In December, “historians” was near the front on the border of Ukraine to Russia when a Russian drone discovered his company and removed a grenade a few meters from him. The power of the explosion smashed his ankle.
“I will just say: I don’t expect anything good for Ukraine (from Trump),” he said.
While Trump explicitly explicitly explicitly explicitly presented how he ends up the war, Zelenskyy shared some of his own insights into the motivations of the US president at a press conference in Kyiv on Sunday.
“I think they believe in the world (the Americans) that it means the end of the war,” he said, referring to an armistice.
“I am even sure that you believe that this will really be a great success and that Putin will not take any risk of starting a war again.”
Trump and other American officials stated that they expect the prospect of American companies to return to Russia after the economic sanctions will be a considerable incentive for Russia to end war.
But on Sunday, the President of Ukraine said that this type of thinking would not only put his country, but also endangered throughout Europe.
“The Russians will prepare and stage further progress,” said Zelenskyy. “It is very dangerous for everyone.”
Zelenskyy also emphasized that, if he thinks, Trump, if he believes, ended a deal with Putin and forced Ukraine to be accompanied.
“If America … achieves an agreement with Russians about us without us, then there will be no success in this agreement if we do not agree to the conditions. Full station.”
US President Donald Trump accused Ukraine of not ending the war years ago with Russia. The comments were an answer to the concerns of Ukraine to be excluded from the discussions with Russia in Saudi Arabia.
“Manipulation” and “read” the Ukraine confronts
The rehabilitation clinic in Kyiv-Namens “THANKS” (on Ukrainian, Dyakuyu)-Wurde by Hue Chon White, an American who has been living in Ukraine for more than 30 years.
White and several Ukrainian veterans set up the center in 2023 to help wounded soldiers switch from hospital care and back to their own houses.
“To be honest, it is very discouraging,” White told CBC News. “It is manipulation and lies and how the Ukrainians are used for the profit of other people,” she said, specifically referring to the US advance of extracting mineral concessions.
“I think the Ukrainians will continue to fight for the country and fight for people, and that is their motivation why they are fighting, even though the (American) government says.”
According to Ukraine, that the US support for the country in the past three years, when Joe Biden has been president, was $ 183 billion, of which almost 66 billion dollars were supported militarily.
And while the European nations have delivered more money as a whole, soldiers say that without advanced American weapons, the task of defending Ukraine against Russian attacks in the air and on site becomes more difficult.
“(We use) everything from machine guns to grenade launchers to armored vehicles,” said “historian”.
“The last time I was wounded, I was evacuated in an American Bradley vehicle.”
But among the soldiers of the clinic, who spoke to CBC News, there seemed little doubt that Trump should try to mutate Zelenskyy into a deal that would be the only way to continue the war without US help, however difficult this too were.
“In one way or another, we are ready to continue our job,” said “historian” and adds that he will return to the fight as soon as his ankle heals.
“And that’s not just my opinion, my comrades also think.”
