Ukrainians used to spit at deserters... now they sympathise with them

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : On the Ukrainian side, meanwhile, mobilisation laws do not give recruits any legal right to leave the frontline for periods of R&R, which means that - theoretically - people who enlist, or are conscripted, can be stuck at the front non-stop, possibly for years.
52% : A soldier fires a howitzer at Ukrainian positions in video released by Moscow as the war approaches its third anniversaryIn total, over 100,000 have been charged under desertion laws but the true number of people who have abandoned their posts is thought to be much higher.
51% : Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky met Trump with France's President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Saturday.
47% : While Zelensky and Trump agreed to pursue a 'just peace', observers sensed a certain discomfort between the two men as they posed for pictures before commencing their talks and there were no warm smiles when they took their leave of each other afterwards.
46% : The more pain Kyiv can inflict on the invaders before Trump enters the White House, the better the hand they will have when negotiations eventually start.

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