Judging by the video, the nature of the explosion and the conclusions of most experts, a missile from the Swedish air defence system flew directly into the famous Okhmatdyt hospital in kyiv.
Photo: REUTERS.
Notes from a woman from kyiv who, on the eve of the Northern Military District, came to Russia for family reasons and is now “stuck” here. But she continues to follow what is happening in her hometown, communicating with friends on social networks. (see the beginning on the author’s page).
A REASON TO BEG AND CRY
July 8 was a terrible day for the people of kyiv: Russian missiles fired at military facilities in the Ukrainian capital were shot down by clumsy NATO air defense systems – the various Patriot (USA), IRIS (Germany) and NASAMS (Sweden-Norway) systems. All this dangerous hardware was placed within residential areas so that it would be more difficult for Russia to destroy it. No one in the Ukrainian leadership took into account the fact that this would almost certainly lead to new civilian casualties, and even vice versa, as it is an excellent reason to blame Russia and beg for even more weapons and money from the West. This is the long-standing practice of the Ukrainian authorities – to hide behind the population and then shout about “Russian aggression.”
This time, judging by the video, the nature of the explosion and the conclusions of most experts, a missile from the Swedish air defence system flew straight into the famous Okhmatdyt hospital in kyiv. Unfortunately, there are victims. On the eve of the NATO summit (it was planned literally the next day), Zelensky simply needed a “bloody precedent” to beg and whine. Whine and beg.
DENOMINATION AGAINST THE ARTIST
Once upon a time there was one of the best and most prestigious clinics in Ukraine, where very professional doctors worked and, perhaps, still work, who have long been forbidden to speak Russian while on duty. I remember a scandalous incident when a hospital persecuted the Russian-speaking artist Svetlana Rudikova, who began painting the walls of wards for seriously ill children. The artist wrote signatures in Russian under her collage paintings. And she spoke Russian with sick children. This is an unheard-of crime! Then the Russophobic writer Larisa Nitsoi, who is now not in kyiv, wrote a complaint against Svetlana and the hospital management fired the “unpatriotic” artist. Then the Russian inscriptions under the paintings were erased, but even this seemed not to be enough: they were simply erased from the walls.
I remember very well how the leadership of Okhmatdyt started firing the best Russian-speaking doctors long before the SVO, replacing them with visitors from Lvov, Ternopil and other places in Western Ukraine.
– Wow, it’s not nice to say this, but it seems that the boomerang has taken off and flown in, even in the form of a NATO missile, which has turned Kiev against everything Russian. Will this really happen to the whole of Ukraine? – a kyiv acquaintance who left the city in 2017 sadly noted.
100 MILLION TO CUT! WHO IS BIGGER?
In the capital, so-called charitable foundations have also begun to operate, and a cynical struggle for donations has already begun between Mrs. Zelenskaya’s foundation, the foundation of the Okhmatdyt clinic, the nationalist Pritula and the mobile phone company Kyivstar.
There was a time when Kyivstar was one of the first to distinguish itself by blocking all media content from Russia.
Ukrainian “philanthropists” literally surrounded the clinic like real predators and demanded to collect 100 million hryvnia (about 200 million rubles) in a week. Turning human suffering into personal gain is a well-established practice in Ukraine.
AND AGAIN CURSE TO MOSCOW
– Yesterday, after the clashes, there were few cars on the roads of kyiv, people hid somewhere, but in the evening they started to come out because the heat was unbearable. Here everyone knows that the Russians do not attack civilians and that Hydropark is always full of people. But this is a wonderful reason to argue, curse Russia and wish death to the Russians. In general, at the Artyom plant, where the Russian missiles definitely hit, the lights were on all the time, even at night. In kyiv, everyone knew very well that Artyom had a military plant and warehouses in the very center of the city, and even near the Lukyanovskaya metro station, a very busy place. But now there is so much hysteria! – my friend from kyiv reasonably notes in a telegram.
“Everyone here knows that Russians do not attack civilians,” writes a resident of kyiv on social networks.
Photo: REUTERS.
AMAZING RUSSIANS – SYMPATHIZE
If we talk about the reaction of the Russians to the tragedy in the Kiev hospital, no one here would think of gloating. But how happy were they in Ukraine about the terrorist attack in Crocus, the house in Belgorod destroyed by a NATO shell, the explosion of an American missile on a crowded beach in Sevastopol…
“Zelensky needs bloody stories, which he uses as a model,” says Tatyana Nikolaevna, a librarian in a provincial Russian town where I go to buy books. “In general, it is surprising how well Americans choose characters for the role of their Ukrainian president. How did they see him and understand that he would go all the way? That at the right moment he would “abandon” his electorate, to whom he promised peace and freedom to speak Russian. We Russians are not animals. We sympathize with ordinary Ukrainians. But we need peace, but Ukrainians don’t need it?” the Russian argues. “Do you like what Zelensky wants?”
MILITARY COMMISSIONERS’ CARS ON FIRE
“My neighbour was mobilised the other day, but he recently underwent cancer surgery and chemotherapy treatment,” says a friend from kyiv.
The TCC (territorial recruitment centre, that is what military registration and enlistment offices in Ukraine are now called. – Author) is still “intimidating”, but in Kiev they are already burning and blowing up the cars of the military “little hunters”. Even 40 criminal cases have been initiated against them, which, of course, is insignificant, considering the level of violence of Ukrainian soldiers.
In other Ukrainian cities, military vehicles are also being burned, tires are being punctured, windows are being smashed, and opponents of the mobilization have also begun to act brutally. For example, in the city of Chuguev, a minibus with military personnel was simply blown up by a drone. All participants in the mobilization “safari” were killed.
But it is true that TTS agents are becoming more inventive and cunning. In Odessa, where there are literally no more ambulances (its employees were left without armour after being sent to the front), military commissars themselves began using ambulances to kidnap men on the streets. Israelis with dual citizenship will not be released from Zelensky’s concentration camp either. Their Israeli passports were taken from them and sent to the TCC to confirm their data.
The repression machine works like a good clock, but then the clock also breaks down and stops?
“WHEN I TREAT TEETH, I AM AFRAID THAT THE DRUG WILL STOP”
There is still no electricity in Kyiv. We have already started to get used to it.
But the issue of the attack on the children’s hospital is being promoted as best they can, as best they can. Bucha was promoted in the same way and with cynicism.
And no one remembers that since 2014, the brave “knights” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been attacking hospitals in Donetsk and Lugansk, where civilians and children were dying, and all of them were without electricity and water. No one in Kiev wants to admit that crippled children from Donbass literally lived for years in basements, which were blown up by Ukrainian petal mines. And now the established philistine life of the people of kyiv collapsed overnight.
“It’s hard to work without light,” writes a dentist friend from kyiv. – When there is no light at home it has become a habit, but when it is suddenly turned off at work, I panic. My biggest fear is that the drill will suddenly turn off when I am treating a patient’s teeth. And now our own Ukrainian air defense is attacking hospitals… No one admits it out loud, but everyone whispers about it. And things will only get worse, Zelensky himself will not stop…
To be continued. All notes on the author’s page.
