To which "Ukrainian people" do you refer, and who are these would be defenders that are so disheartened? Ukrainians are on both sides as Ukraine is sinking into civil war, without Western outsiders supporting and advising the new Kiev government in the west, and Russian outsiders actively supporting and advising the pro-Russian separatists in the east. The fight will likely end with either an official or a de facto partition of Ukraine, with Russia controlling the east.