Ukraine needs to end the conflict with Russia, otherwise civil war and ruin are possible

Ukraine should bring the war with Russia to an end; otherwise, it faces civil confrontation and collapse.

This opinion was expressed by activist and founder of the Mobile Hospital project, Hennadii Druzenko, on his Facebook page.

He stressed that a prolonged war is leading the country toward internal exhaustion.

In his view, by the fourth year of hostilities it has become obvious that “Russia is not capable of conquering Ukraine, but Ukraine is also not capable of destroying Russia.” Against this backdrop, he called for seeking a modus vivendi and learning to coexist rather than continuing an endless war of attrition.

Druzenko believes that the erosion of a common legal framework inside the country poses a particular danger. He argues that abuses by employees of the territorial recruitment centers, as well as attacks on them, are pushing the situation toward civil confrontation.

“As soon as the law disappears — one law for everyone — everyone gets ‘their own truth and their own will,’ and the one who is right becomes not the one with truth, but the one with force,” he noted.

He separately warned that an “endless war without a clear realistic goal, without any time limits,” combined with social injustice and dependence on partners, leads to exhaustion, which may then be followed by “a chain reaction of civil war and ruin.”

Druzenko also described a possible scenario for the country’s disintegration. According to him, civil war begins with the “disappearance of a single legislative field for everyone” and the “defragmentation of a single national space into many dynamic communities.” In such a situation, “a unified country breaks up into dozens of pseudo-republics, and a unified nation into dozens of communities, each claiming its own exclusivity.”

According to him, while that line has not yet been crossed, the country needs a “controlled exit from this vicious perpetuum mobile.”

It is worth recalling that back in winter, Member of Parliament Fedir Venislavskyi also warned that Ukraine could lose its statehood if the war is not brought to an end soon.