But many concede they are beginning to feel that some sort of peace deal, however imperfect, may just be better than the status quo.
On a freezing cold, misty day, small groups of people gather, sometimes hugging, sometimes crying, sometimes just silent. In front of them, the wall of St Michael's golden-domed monastery in the centre of Kyiv's old town. The walls are now festooned with the faces of thousands of soldiers, all dead, all killed in this war with Russia. It started as a single picture of a fallen soldier placed on the wall.
When we spoke on Friday, he made it very clear to me that he doesn't believe any lives lost are for nothing. 'I believe that these people who are no longer with us, they already have prevailed. Putin... has not realised it yet, but Ukrainians have already won, and Ukrainians who are no longer with us, they put everything they had at stake, and they are already winners,' he said.
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