Oliver Carroll

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The Intelligence from The Economist · What price victory? Ukraine on the front foot · 27 May 2026 podcast

And this has been one of the tensions actually playing out in the leadership.

There have been different camps.

Those who basically say that Ukraine can benefit from a longer war.

Because in time the effect on Russia's economy will be shown, the integration of Ukrainian industry with the European defence industries will come online, and all of that will play into a longer term degradation of Russian potential.

But others say, listen, you know, all the time that war goes on in Ukraine, it's Ukraine's critical infrastructure that's being frayed first of all.

And certainly from the civilian point of view, it really depends where you are.

If you're a civilian in Kharkiv, you want this war to be over as soon as possible.

The same of certain areas in Kiev.

And the situation this winter was pretty grim.

The city was very close to being a total blackout.

It's really hard to tell.

But one thing we can say is that despite the grimness of the winter, public morale held.

I've seen a survey which was commissioned by an American NGO.

which underline that point.

But it does also show that society is fracturing and there is an element which is increasingly worried about the direction of the country.

And what was interesting actually in that survey was it wasn't actually, you know, the trauma and the exhaustion of war which was pulling down as a demotivating factor, it was the idea of elite corruption.

And distrust of institutions like the presidency and so on.

And the issue of conscription and injustices in conscription are increasingly controversial in society and they hit a nerve.

We have a huge number of people now AWOL too scared to go out on the streets for fear of being picked up by

Draft officers.

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