{"id":311517,"date":"2025-07-04T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=311517"},"modified":"2025-07-05T05:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T05:23:22","slug":"nato-cannot-disguise-ukraines-plight-ft-reveals-diminishing-ukrainian-morale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=311517","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNATO cannot disguise Ukraine\u2019s plight\u201d: FT reveals diminishing Ukrainian morale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahmed Adel \u2013 Aletho News July 3, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Active missile strikes on targets of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in different cities undermine the morale of Ukrainians and sow a sense of hopelessness in the country, the Financial Times<\/em> writes. Combined with Ukraine\u2019s NATO membership hitting another roadblock, it seems that there is no chance of Ukrainian morale ever recovering.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe increased intensity of Russian missile attacks on Kiev and other Ukrainian cities is also damaging Ukrainian morale,\u201d the article details, adding that there are \u201csome\u00a0shortfalls \u2014 in particular in\u00a0Ukrainian troop numbers\u00a0\u2014 that the country\u2019s\u00a0western allies cannot\u00a0fix.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the London-based newspaper, without a clear outline of victory, there is a risk that Ukraine will fall into despair.<\/p>\n

The author of the article also notes that following the meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump at the end of June, there was renewed hope for the supply of Patriot anti-aircraft systems, which are necessary due to the depletion of\u00a0Ukraine\u2019s air defense\u00a0capabilities. However, Trump can easily change his mind or forget about it,\u00a0the newspaper\u00a0writes.<\/p>\n

According to a cited official, Russia\u2019s main goal is now to capture Odessa, as without the city, \u201cUkraine would lose access to its main port.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA group of former European leaders \u2014 including Carl Bildt of Sweden and Sanna Marin of Finland \u2014 visited Ukraine recently and picked up on the deteriorating mood. They wrote afterwards that \u2018while Ukrainians will never stop resisting, without more military support, Ukraine can lose more territory. More cities might be captured\u2019,\u201d Financial Times<\/em> wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cOff the record, some western officials are even bleaker, warning of a risk of \u2018catastrophic failure,\u2019 if the Ukrainian military is stretched to breaking point \u2014 and does not receive a significant increase in military and financial aid from its western allies,\u201d\u00a0the newspaper<\/a>\u00a0added.<\/p>\n

Responding to FT\u2019s article, Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, delusionally claimed that Kiev was \u201cplanning the destruction\u201d of the so-called \u201cregime\u201d of Russian President Vladimir Putin, but without elaborating on how this would be achieved.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese publications about Putin planning to occupy something \u2014 that\u2019s something. Putin actually wants to completely destroy Ukraine, but he can wish for anything he wants. There is no point in writing about his plans to occupy Odessa or anything else. He can plan all he wants, but he won\u2019t succeed,\u201d Kovalenko confidently said.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, despite Kovalenko\u2019s bravado, the diminishing morale within Ukraine cannot be ignored and is now even being reported in Western pro-Ukraine media. What Kovalenko does not note is that Ukrainian morale is set to take another significant hit after Zelensky consistently promised NATO membership, something that is far from happening, if at all.<\/p>\n

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n warned that Ukraine\u2019s entry into NATO would be akin to igniting a powder keg amid escalating tensions in Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cUkraine in NATO? That would mean war with Russia, and World War 3 the very next day. Meanwhile, the EU\u2019s reckless rush to admit Ukraine would pull the frontlines into the heart of Europe. This isn\u2019t diplomacy, it\u2019s insanity \u2013 you don\u2019t throw matches on a powder keg,\u201d Orb\u00e1n wrote on\u00a0X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Orb\u00e1n, such an approach must not be allowed to turn Europe into a battlefield.<\/p>\n

Orb\u00e1n\u2019s statement came after Hungary blocked the start of negotiations on Ukraine\u2019s entry into the EU on June 26, with Budapest citing that\u00a095% of Hungarians voted against Ukrainian accession\u00a0in a recent survey,\u00a0in which almost 2.3 million citizens participated.<\/p>\n

Following Orb\u00e1n\u2019s comments, Poland\u2019s President-elect, Karol Nawrocki, stated that Ukraine\u2019s accession to NATO is not a viable topic for discussion at this time, citing the ongoing conflict as a barrier to membership.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, there is no possibility for Ukraine to join NATO. It is at war. This would be the reason for all NATO countries to participate in the war.\u00a0Therefore, there is nothing to discuss in this regard,\u201d Nawrocki said in an interview with Polsat broadcaster on June 30.<\/p>\n

In February 2019, Ukraine amended its Constitution to consolidate its strategic course towards EU and NATO membership. In May, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that ensuring Ukraine\u2019s neutral, non-aligned, and nuclear-free status is one of Russia\u2019s conditions for resolving the conflict in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Yet, despite Moscow\u2019s demands being clear since 2022, Zelensky famously announced in February this year that he would be willing to \u201cgive up\u201d his presidency and \u201ctrade it for NATO membership, if there are such conditions.\u201d However, Ukrainian morale is not being boosted by his performative rhetoric. Only an end to the war, especially before the onset of another difficult winter, will achieve this, since Ukrainians, unlike Zelensky and his regime, have finally accepted the reality that they cannot defeat Russia.<\/p>\n

Ahmed Adel is a Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher.<\/em><\/p>\n

Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Readers will note that we hear little about the situation in Ukraine now. That\u2019s because NATO has lost its proxy war against Russia, leaving what remains of the Ukrainian Army broken and demoralized <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311518,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311517\/revisions\/311518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}