After 3 years of fighting, the Ukrainian icon has still been sold! On February 18, after more than four hours of talks between the Russian and American delegations in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Zelensky icon stated: we will never yield!
Three years ago, Ukraine was still touted as the "breadbasket of Europe"; now the streets are filled with asphalt roads torn up by artillery shells. This war has dragged on to the point where even the most optimistic military experts did not expect it to turn into a marathon.
The Ukrainian army is now even using old T-64 tanks on the front lines, and some units have even resorted to World War II equipment dug up from museums. The territories in the four eastern states are being fought over like a tug-of-war; today they capture a village, and tomorrow they lose a patch of forest.
The Pentagon icon's account book records $45 billion in military aid, but most of this money has flowed back into the pockets of American arms dealers. They publicly shout "we stand with Ukraine," while secretly calculating profits, hoping that the Russia-Ukraine conflict will drag on, allowing Russia icon to bleed while tightening the strings on their European allies.
NATO icon is even craftier, issuing only empty promises to Ukraine. The application materials for joining the alliance are piled higher than the Kyiv Cathedral, and each summit simply repeats like a recording, "the door is open." It's evident to the discerning that these NATO bigwigs would rather watch the war live on screen than send their own soldiers to Eastern Europe to face artillery fire.
On the Russian side, it's also a difficult position; what was originally envisioned as a quick resolution with a "special military operation" has turned into a war of attrition icon. The ruble's exchange rate has been on a roller coaster, and the military production lines are working three shifts yet still cannot keep up with the losses.
However, a dead camel is still bigger than a horse; relying on its oil and gas sales, Russia has managed to stand up to the entire Western camp. Now even T-54 icon tanks from the grandfather generation are being dug up and refurbished from the graveyard, showing that Putin icon is betting the country's fate.
The most suffering is still borne by the common people. The university town of Kharkiv icon has turned into a sniper's paradise, and the shores of Odesa icon along the Black Sea icon are filled with landmines icon. The UN's estimated number of refugees has long surpassed 10 million, but behind this number are countless broken families.
Looking back now, if they had taken a neutral route like Finland's, perhaps this catastrophe could have been avoided, but unfortunately, history has no ifs.