Yep, they’ll never give up and you won’t let them.
Yes dummy, I personally won't allow Ukrainians to give up their fight for freedom from a shitty, totalitarian regime.
I live in Poland - we had a refugee family with us for 2 months. They then returned home, they live north of Kyiv (not Bucha, thank goodness).
Around a month or two ago, the mother came back to start work in a factory in western Poland (as you can imagine, there are no jobs in Ukraine) and we met with her and some other Ukrainian women who came to work to send money back to their families.
All of these were Russian speakers; all of them had male members of their family fighting. A few had male family members who had died fighting Putin’s invasion force.
All of them wanted to keep fighting - and I was as suprised as you.
Why?
Because they said (what I wrote above) - that they saw that Putin took land in 2014, they thought that was the end. Then Putin came back and attacked Kyiv and wanted to capture the entire coastline. They believe that if Putin gets to keep the land he’s taken today, he will come back in 8 more years and unleash hell again.
All of them believe that it is time to push Putin OUT once and for all, or Putin will come back in a few years and come back and revisit hell.
Consider you as a home owner — a home breaker with his cronies takes your front porch and your living room and part of your corridor. He even attempts to capture your main bedroom, but you push him out and kill his main guy.
He rapes one of your daughters and threatens to do more.
Then in your living room he runs a poll of his cronies and the vote is that your living room is now his.
Now you are pushing him out, step by step and he’s begging for negotiations for him to keep what he has of your house.
If you let him keep this he then rests and in some time he will come back for more.
You decide that this living in continuous apprehension is not worth it, you will push him out NOW, while you have impetus.