'Russia is waging small-scale assaults across the entire front, but the situation on the battlefield is nowhere near bad enough for Ukraine to be forced into an unfavorable peace deal, military analysts and soldiers told the Kyiv Independent.
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Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military — though outmanned and outgunned — has managed to stabilize the front. According to experts who spoke with the Kyiv Independent, Ukraine can keep fighting contrary to Trump's argument.
"Ukraine's position is nowhere near bad enough that they would need to make such concessions, especially when Russia isn't making any actual concessions," said Jakub Janovsky, a Prague-based military analyst at the Oryx open-source project tracking Ukrainian and Russian equipment losses.
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You can only formally accept territorial losses once, you cannot get them back again. But Russia can breach ceasefires as many times as it likes," Zagorodnyuk told the Kyiv Independent, stressing that Ukraine needs firm security guarantees from the U.S. and Europe.
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"I don't think Ukraine is in a position where it sort of has to accept whatever the U.S. says or Russia's demands in order to get a deal immediately," Hardie told the Kyiv Independent.'
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Ukraine to continue fighting with or without Trump, experts say, April 25, 2025
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