“Why did my son die?”: at the vast military cemetery in Lviv 0 37

At Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv, which is quickly filling up with the graves of Ukrainian soldiers, conflicting voices are being heard about the future of the war and possible conditions for peace.

As Reuters reports, while the U.S. administration is pushing a new settlement plan that may require painful territorial concessions, families of those killed on the front line are weighing their own views on what the end of the war should look like.

50-year-old Olya Kachmarik, who lost her son Alexander, says she is ready to support a plan that stops the bloodshed - even if it means losing part of the territory. "The more they (the Russians) go down this path, the more they want," she says, standing by her son's grave in Lviv, as Russian troops advance hundreds of kilometers to the east.

Alexander is one of more than a thousand Ukrainian soldiers buried in the new military section of Lychakiv Cemetery. According to local authorities, there are almost no free spaces left, and a new area for burials is already being prepared nearby. Amid the blue and yellow flags and the winter wind, families are bidding farewell to the new fallen. Another funeral ceremony was just concluding when officials were inspecting the area for future graves - the rumble of excavators testified: space is becoming increasingly limited.

Oksana Rymaruk, whose husband was killed in June, says she supports negotiations for the future of the children.

"Let them do whatever is necessary so that our children can run on free land - and freely visit the graves of their fathers and mothers," says the 25-year-old woman, holding her one-and-a-half-year-old child.

The scale of losses at Lychakiv she describes as "truly impressive."

Despite pressure on Kyiv to agree to a compromise, particularly the new plan being promoted by the Trump administration, Ukrainian society remains firmly set: a poll by KMIS showed that a slight majority of citizens oppose giving up territories.

President Volodymyr Zelensky stated last week that the country is experiencing "the most difficult moment" since the beginning of the war, but he "will not betray Ukraine's interests by signing a bad deal."