Notes and Essays -- John Brown

Most Ukrainians still oppose ceding any territory to Russia. But polls and recent remarks by the country’s leaders highlight a palpable shift in the conversation around peace talks. By Kim Barker; photographs by Oksana Parafeniuk   Olha Predchenko, right, and her mother, Kateryna Predchenko, looking at the makeshift memorial for fallen soldiers at Maidan Square in Kyiv last week. Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine July 31, 2024 Updated 6:08 a.m. ET, The New York Times Olha Predchenko held hands with her 85-year-old mother as they looked at the makeshift memorial on the grass in central Kyiv, each blue and yellow flag marked with the name of a soldier who had died fighting in the war with Russia. They come here often to Maidan Square, to spend time thinking about the dead and the war. Ms. Predchenko said she dreamed of something heavy falling on the Kremlin. But she also hoped for a peace deal soon.  “Better a bad peace than a good war,” added Ms. Predchenko, 61. Increasingly frustra...

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