Daryna Mayer is an NBC News producer and reporter based in Kyiv, Ukraine.
KYIV, Ukraine — On Ukraine’s front lines, soldiers have their eyes on the enemy slowly advancing across the country’s muddy fields — and on Washington, where an ally’s inaction is doing as much to dent their morale. “The situation on the battlefield is getting worse every week,” one soldier serving in the southern Zaporizhzhia region told NBC News.
Another soldier serving in the infantry in the eastern Donbas region said that Ukrainian forces were aware of their heavy reliance on Western supplies and the dire future they faced with that support in doubt. “Imagine a person injured in a car crash,” said the private, who goes by the call sign “Tatarin.” “You have an option of either helping this person or wait a little until the medics arrive, and every minute for this person is their chance of survival,” he said. “It’s the same here.
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