give up the territories, but there should be some compromise or concession. translation: we hope that putin is a sane person. - that is a very small hope. but, at the end of the lonely roads out to the front line towns, the war feels much closer. people risk a trip to the market here. but the mayor shows off his ukrainian made assault rifle and says that nato s only choice is to give them the planes and the tanks they need to beat the russians. i think if putin wins this war, they don t stop. next will be poland, maybe romania, bulgaria and other countries in the european union. i think. biden and some of the other leaders have said that if they intervened in the war,
when she came back from belarus, russia s ally. but i won t lie, she said, i m very scared. gennady s home was also hit. the russians thought they would be greeted with hugs, he says, but if we don t get weapons to take the offensive, missiles and planes, the war is going to drag on for a long time. president zelensky hinted at compromise to russian journalists on ukrainian neutrality and territory. translation: i understand it s impossible to force - russia completely from the ukrainian territory. it would lead to the third world war. i understand it, and that is why i m talking about a compromise. in kyiv, a few cafes are open, and it is less tense than a month ago. slava and katarina were intrigued by what the president had said. nobody is saying we should
ground in the south and east, it doesn t control the entire area and we still don t really know what its plans are for other places, including the capital, kyiv. president zelensky does use the word compromise. he used it when he spoke to russian journalists, compromise. he used it when he spoke to russianjournalists, proposing to russian journalists, proposing russia to russianjournalists, proposing russia pulled back to areas it controlled before the invasion and then come up with a compromise. but pulling back from territory isn t a compromise for president putin, it would be a climb down, and a humiliating climb down. from him we have to bear in mind this isn tjust about ukraine, it s also about his relationship with nato and of course the united states. president biden has been speaking about his comment about, for god s sake, this man can t remain in power, saying it was his moral outrage, not the policy of his moral outrage, not the policy of his administration. but he didn t ta
if there was a no fly zone, it could be world war iii. maybe, maybe, but if they don t close the sky, they will be next. ukraine s president was right to talk about compromise. but it may never happen. ceasefire agreements that work generally require either two sides fighting each other to exhaustion, or the weaker side making concessions because it fears defeat. or an outside intervention. none of those conditions applies in ukraine at the moment. so the most likely option is a continuation of a war of attrition. jeremy bowen, bbc news, kyiv. in the south, ukrainian forces have had some success in recent days pushing back russian forces raising doubts over whether the kremlin will still try to seize control