2023-11-04 06:03:00
By Pierre Polard
Published 1 hour ago, Updated 1 hour ago
A Ukrainian soldier walks past the memorial to the killed fighters in kyiv on October 18. Hesther Ng / SOPA Images/Sipa USA via Archyde.com Connect
Demonstrations are increasing in cities to call on public authorities to step up their aid to the war effort.
In kyiv,
It is through the return to kyiv of a soldier on leave that the distance, physical and moral, between the front and the rear is truly understood. This distance can be quantified: a man has the right to thirty days of rest per year, provided that his unit does not lose more than a third of its troops. 630 kilometers separate kyiv and Kramatorsk, the last station before the front. And if distance is no respite, with Russian drones and missiles striking everywhere in Ukraine, kyiv is relatively calm – precisely the same calm as last fall, before Russia massively bombed energy infrastructure for an entire winter. The clearest quantification of the distance between front and rear remains impossible to determine: how many soldiers actually return, how many do not return completely, their spirit remaining at the front or the front returning with them, it depends. And above all, from now on, how many men will never come back at all.
In kyiv, dead and ghosts…
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