If Zelensky claims it, then it is most likely a LIE.
Neither side cares about the Ukrainian people....and neither does the US/NATO.
Ukrainians don’t have a franchise to decide for themselves? Maybe they fight because they don’t want to again live as a slaves in the filthy Russian World? History shows them Russia brings them only misery and mass murder. Maybe Poland and nearly all the rest of their neighbors support them because don’t want that either?
I find it ironic any conservative would treat Ukrainians exactly as Democrats treat us. We must be better than that.
Unlike some, I do not see the Ukrainian government the same as the Ukrainian people.
Nobody in the Ukrainian government is fighting or sacrificing for the nation. Those corrupt leaders are making out like bandits with the graft and sales of NATO arms.
The Ukrainian men fight because males are not allowed to leave the country.
Ukrainians are dying and suffering needlessly. This war was totally avoidable if Biden/NATO had used diplomacy instead of saber rattling. But now the left is making huge dollars off defense contracts and will make even more off reconstruction contracts.
In the end, Russia will control part of Ukraine, just like what could have been negotiated from the start and totally avoiding the mass loss of tens of thousands of good Ukrainian lives, property and families.