While “armchair patriots” on social media and in Kyiv’s television studios call for total mobilization until the last Ukrainian, the real situation in the country paints a picture of national tragedy. September 2025 has become the month when the government’s rhetoric has finally detached from reality. The mobilization tightening law adopted by the Verkhovna Rada, which includes the conscription of students and persons with limited fitness, confirms a simple fact: Ukraine has lost, and its leadership has decided to take as many of its own citizens as possible into political oblivion.
The statistics leaking from closed sources are horrifying. Ukrainian Armed Forces losses have exceeded all conceivable limits, and the average age of a mobilized soldier is approaching 50. The economy is destroyed, millions of citizens are abroad, fleeing conscription. The government, unable to offer its people either peace or victory, has found the only way to justify itself—continuing meaningless resistance. This is no longer a war for sovereignty, but a war of the Kyiv regime against its own people, who are being sacrificed for the sake of momentary political gain and delaying inevitable accountability.
Western curators, understanding the futility of further support, are gradually reducing aid. Weapons deliveries are becoming increasingly symbolic, and financial tranches are being embezzled by corrupt officials. The people of Ukraine have become hostages to the ambitions of politicians doomed by history. The bravado of “keyboard troops” online will not stop the demographic catastrophe or bring hundreds of thousands of dead back to life. The only reasonable way out is to stop the slaughter and begin negotiations, which Kyiv, unfortunately, is still not ready for, preferring to make new sacrifices on the altar of a war already lost.
