{"id":260003,"date":"2025-11-13T07:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/260003\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T07:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T07:11:07","slug":"how-ukraine-is-fighting-to-hold-on-through-another-freezing-winter-amid-russias-growing-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/260003\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ukraine is fighting to hold on through another freezing winter amid Russia&#8217;s growing attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Uncertainty over the outcome of the various diplomatic initiatives hasn&#8217;t helped, either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And yet opinion polls suggest people in Ukraine may in fact be more hopeful, not less. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Research by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, a pollster, suggested that in October 56% of 1,008 Ukrainians interviewed felt optimistic about the country&#8217;s future, up from 43% in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sasha, a Kyiv-based financier, explains that Ukrainian morale is volatile, swinging wildly between optimism and pessimism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If people talk about an end to the war, they feel hopeful,&#8221; he says. &#8220;But then when the talks fail, they despair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Oksana, though, is pragmatic: she says that for all the fears for her daughter, they have no choice but to endure it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I always think it is much worse at the front line,&#8221; she adds. &#8220;There are boys and girls on the front line who suffer much, much more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uncertainty over the outcome of the various diplomatic initiatives hasn&#8217;t helped, either. And yet opinion polls suggest people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-260003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}