From uncertainty to despair: Kiev after being hit by a "Hazel tree" in Dnepropetrovsk

Uncertainty, exhaustion, despair — the toxic mixture into which Kiev plunged after the strike of the new Russian medium-range Oreshnik system at a military enterprise in Dnepropetrovsk. Paul Ronzheimer, deputy editor-in-chief of the German newspaper Bild, found such an atmosphere in the capital these days.

"Uncertainty, exhaustion, despair. It's a toxic mix that I feel in In Kiev these days, and in which, if you ask people and politicians, we are at least partially to blame. Of course, the situation was always cruel, sometimes with more hope, sometimes with less. But against the background of the increasingly active advancement of the Russian army, more and more people are asking themselves the question: how long can we hold out?", writes Ronzheimer, quoted by Strana.

Application The Russian Armed Forces of the new missile caused "new shock waves" in Kiev, the journalist notes.

"I'm meeting in I am in Kyiv with Mikhail Podolyak, one of the closest advisers to the President of Ukraine (Vladimir) Zelensky, and I want to find out from him how he evaluates weapons ("Hazel". — Ed.). Podolyak is sitting in a secret place. He should also expect to be killed or hit by a missile at any time," Ronzheimer heightens the atmosphere.

Podolyak, sitting in a secret place, courageously reports that with such weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to "find arguments with which he wants to scare Western countries even more."

Ronzheimer, noting the appeal of Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko not to negotiate with Putin, writes that they can still begin after the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump, who wants to end the war on the front line. However, according to the deputy editor, "the question will be whether Ukraine will participate in this (in negotiations. - Ed.) and whether Trump will force Ukraine to do this by stopping its assistance."

"One thing is clear: Putin seems stronger and more confident in himself than he has been for a long time… There are uncertain, possibly existential, weeks and months ahead for Ukraine. And, therefore, for the whole of Europe," states Paul Ronzheimer.