Repectiense Cellectent, BBC News
BBCWhile Moscow considers a temporary stop-stop, the military machine continues to maintain the advantages of the front line. Diplomatic negotiation can be slow and difficult. But in the battlefield, they will be measured in lost life.
In a military hospital in eastern Ukraine, the injured arrived by ambulance in the waves. Here, there is an obvious attachment between manhood that is happening, far from the fight, and the cruelty of war – where the bodies of man are still struck, bombs and ammunition.
We looked at another two injured Ukrainian soldiers who were loaded by a bus to bring to a Dnipro hospital – others who were injured, others running in stretchers. The bus is fitted with medical equipment to monitor injured while they are driven outward on the roads.
Men aboard are less injured. Most hit shrapnel. The cause is often what is now the more wider weapon in the line front of the line – drone.
No one of us talked to believing this war ends at any time soon. The thirty years of cursing a stretcher of an IV drips to relieve some pain from many shrapnel injuries to his body. He said he heard the talk on a temporary 30-day stop, but adds: “I think that a murderer is easy.”
Vova, sitting nearby, says: “I don’t believe it.” He said near the shrugged town of Pokrovsk, they faced the Russian storm to attack each day. “I doubt there was a truce,” he told me.
Another soldier named Maksym says this is the second time he was injured. “I didn’t believe there was a flood,” he said. “I have a lot of friends we’re out with something else.
“I want to believe that everything is good. But you can’t trust Russia. It’s never.”
The large medical bus is run by the voluntary army of Ukraine Army in Medallion in Ukraine – known hospitals. They carry several wounded soldiers every day.
Sofiia, a 22-year-old medical student, worked with the team in the past 18 months. He also doubted the chances of a ceasefire: “I can’t believe it, but I want it to happen,” he said.
He told me that when he first heard the news that the US and Ukraine agreed to continue for a ceasefire, Russian drones were flying on their basis in the Ukrainian air. For him, talking about peace from a parallel universe.
Sofiia says “best good that Ukraine and America are talking again”. But about the hope of any ceasefire, he focuses on the past.
“Watching all the ceasefire calls us before, those who didn’t work. How did it work?” he asked.
His medicine, Daniel, joined hospitals from Sweden. He said he understood what it was when it was a small country attacked by its giant neighbor. His grandfather fought for Finland against Russia during World War. History counts.
When Daniel arrived in Ukraine, he used the injured soldiers what they would do after the war. He’s gone. “No one wants to answer that,” he said, “Because they don’t want to be disappointed. They don’t dare hope.”
A stopping is not made. But he added: “You can’t trust Putin to do anything that is not worth it in Putin.”
Ukraine has many bitter Russian negotiating experience. France and Germany were broken-ridden in 2014 and 2015, in the first forces Russia supported the first parts of eastern Ukraine and Crimea. They don’t work. Nor did they prevent Russia to continue invading the whole invasion of Ukraine eight years ago.
There may be talking about peace, but men of the 67th brigade in Ukraine are still preparing for war. We looked as they explained their drills to evacuate an injured soldier under fire. Most should do this for real.
In distance, we hear the artillery rumble. Only about 10 miles on the frontline where they will soon return soon.
They hear a little positive news in these days. Ukrainian forces are restricted to Kursk. In August last year, surprise that the territory of Russia seemed to be a step in tactical offense – raised morale. Now is in danger of being a major strategic order.
Kursk may not be a chip chip for future negotiations, but a heavy burden, which lost valued Ukrainian equipment.
One of some positives is that the US holds its military support. The reason for the 67th brigade, which operates the equipment made by the American. They held their drills with a given vehicle provided by the US -XPro.
Ivan, the driver, dressed in a small American patch of his uniform, says the Trump administration was relieved. His car should regularly repairs. “I want them to keep helping,” he said.
But Ivan is not sure if President Trump can be trusted.
“I have doubts,” he said. As for Trust in Putin Putin, he replied: “No. Don’t.” Here, even a temporary stop stop seems far away.
