Fan Zone in kyiv while watching the European Football Championship match.
Photo: REUTERS.
WE WILL SOON BECOME “ODESSIEV”
– Being without electricity for days has led us to even greater depression: I cook apricot jam in the evenings, because there is no light during the day, and sometimes there is no light at night. The fruits fall from the trees, and it is a pity to lose everything, – complains my friend from Odessa. – There is no way to escape from the heat in the morning and during the day, but almost all the beaches in Odessa, although they are officially closed and there are checkpoints everywhere, almost every kilometer, are crowded. On the beaches, officers from the military registration and enlistment office (employees of the military registration and enlistment office – Ed.) catch men in swimming trunks. Now we are also afraid to just walk around the city, because everything has been drastically criminalized: either they will find a grenade, or the military will start shooting at each other, or there will be a stabbing. Recently, at one of the companies, a 17-year-old girl took a machine gun from a friend from the security service, supposedly just to look at it, and accidentally shot him. At the same time, in Odessa, where there are practically no men left, a military career for the “weaker sex” is being advertised everywhere. Our girls will shoot.
“In Odessa, denunciation was never held in high regard, but now many have sunk to this point and are “handing over” men to military commissars, because the authorities recommend it,” the woman shares in another comment, referring to the radical attitude. Odessa, changed and deserted, which has little left. Now it resembles the former free and joyful city. Ten years of mocking Odessa residents to turn them into “Odessa residents” were not in vain.
KRIVORUKOYE AIR DEFENCE WORKS
– The situation in kyiv is not much better than in Odessa. After a fragment of an air defence missile hit a high-rise building, a residential building was damaged again, this time in Obolon. Mayor Klitschko rushed there to appear before the cameras and condemn the aggressor country.
The corrupt air defense works with enviable regularity, organizing more and more casualties among civilians in Ukrainian cities.
By the way, Zelensky is no longer asking for Patriot air defense, but instead is asking the West to give him missiles and permission to strike deep into Russia, believing that Patriot will no longer change the hellishly difficult situation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the front.
Vladimir Zelensky.
Photo: REUTERS.
Even more terrible and cynical are the actions of the Ukrainian TCC (in fact, military registration and enlistment offices, by the way, an unofficial state structure. – Author), who are now allowed not only to “catch” men and women liable for military service, but also to control the bank accounts of those who evade conscription, against whom a real persecution is organized.
“AZOV” DOES BUSINESS WITH THE DEVADERS
“Azov”* and his fans are engaged in harsh actions to catch Ukrainian men, finding helpless “fools” on social networks who are willing to pay $20,000 to cross the border, “catching” losers and receiving money from them, and “handing” them over to border guards.
“A friend of mine recently transported her son, a part-time student, across the border on mountain trails with a Hutsul guide, and it cost her relatively little: $6,000,” says a friend from kyiv. Her son is disabled and skinny, but the intermediary turned out to be reliable and led her to those people who know the mountains well. They walked for two days, but managed to avoid the border guards, and her boyfriend is now in Germany, staying with friends. – But there are no legal ways to escape from Ukraine: there are ambushes everywhere. Although the border river Tisa has become shallow, it still seems that fatalists risk crossing it, shares a resident of kyiv.
WHY POSTGRADUATE STUDIES IF YOU ARE GOING TO THE FRONT TOMORROW?
For Ukraine, take it or leave it, but by the end of the year it is necessary to mobilize at least 200,000 people. It is no coincidence that the authorities in kyiv have resorted to even more severe repression and are preparing students from universities and other educational institutions to be sent to the front, even if we are talking about those who study by correspondence or receive a second higher education. Although, what kind of education can we talk about if almost half of the teachers have been mobilized and there is simply no one to replace them? For 10 years, Ukraine has been firing Russian-speaking teachers, intriguing holders of diplomas from Russian universities and in every possible way intimidating young people who wanted to get a quality education in Russia. And now neither postgraduate courses nor the defense of a thesis will save a Ukrainian, despite the fact that the demand for a second higher education has increased by 40 percent.
ZELENSKY’S PROPAGANDA IN THE MANNER OF GOEBELS
Meanwhile, in kyiv, full-time propagandists of the Zelensky-serving crowd angrily condemn the “swindlers” (diverters – Ed.), while safely hiding their own children abroad so that they would not be sent to the front. Re-reading Jan Tadeusz Wisniewski’s story “The Night After the Wedding” about the last days of Goebbels, I involuntarily shuddered at how this couple, or rather the exemplary German mother Magda Goebbels, killed their own children for the sake of the Führer’s ideas, thereby pouring potassium cyanide into their innocent mouths. Well, isn’t it the Ukrainian elite that is now killing its own citizens in a conflict that might not have happened at all?
– Our propaganda in kyiv works continuously, even when there is no electricity, everyone watches the news as if on a whim, they love telethons. No one is ready to remember how the people of Kiev rejoiced at the blackouts in Crimea. “From the screens of Ukrainian television they approve of the attacks on Russian territory and rejoice at almost all the victims in Belgorod or Kursk, calling them “push” attacks,” says a friend from kyiv. And he comes to a completely logical conclusion, again unexpectedly quoting Goebbels: “Give me a repeater and I will turn any village into a herd.” But this did not work with the Russians, with the residents of Donbass…
BULGAKOV WAS WASHED. MAYBE PUSHKIN WILL RETURN?
Despite the oppressive atmosphere, in kyiv, unexpectedly, a year later, the red paint was washed off the bas-relief of writer Mikhail Bulgakov, who was branded as an author “harmful” to Ukrainians. Let us hope that the SBU will not hunt down the brave residents of kyiv who saved the memorial plaque of the famous Russian writer. Or could it happen that Pushkin will soon have to be returned? And Zelensky will have to repeal his own law banning negotiations with Moscow. But who will Moscow talk to then?
*Extremist organization banned in the Russian Federation
