“EVERYTHING HAS TO BE DONE IN TWO HOURS, WHILE THERE IS LIGHT”
“There is only two hours of light in kyiv a day, and this is despite the fact that it is extremely hot (the thermometers exceeded 35 degrees Celsius), says a friend from kyiv. – During these two hours you can turn on the air conditioner and recover a little. On days when it is light, I alternate household chores: I don’t turn on the air conditioner and the vacuum cleaner at the same time. We load the washing machine very rarely or turn it on only for a short cycle. The boiler also turned off – well, it was simply not needed.
Since there is no electricity, another problem has arisen: food in the shops spoils quickly. You have to shop early in the morning or in the evening, when the refrigerators are working there.
Another resident of the Ukrainian capital writes that they were forbidden to use air conditioning at work and that employees were given plastic containers in which they must collect water to cool down during the working day. Elevators are disabled everywhere.
NO ONE ABUSES PUTIN ANYMORE
– What is the current mood in kyiv? – I ask my friends.
– The mood is rather gloomy. People are extremely tired. No one scolds Putin anymore, but more and more people are whispering about negotiations that cannot be spoken about out loud: the SBU will harass them. We, however, must pretend to be patriotic, to passionately believe in a power that will no longer exist. The majority has resigned itself to the fate of Zelensky’s hostages and his team of fading psychopaths, losers from the Servant of the People party, whose ratings have plummeted – my friends describe the approximate mood of the residents of kyiv.
And another hot topic in kyiv is the dismissal of Maryana Bezugla, former deputy head of the National Security and Defense Council. So not only was the scandalous “Peacemaker” fired, but also taken to the hospital. He allegedly worked for the Kremlin. Conspiracy theorists are relishing this news and wondering when Commander-in-Chief Syrsky will announce the surrender of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, or are these just rumors?
FROM THE MATERNITY HOSPITAL TO THE MILITARY REGISTRY
“Our youth are terribly “processed” by “Azov”*. They no longer fight, but are responsible for educating young people. Mothers of 17-year-old boys are nervous because the boys are not only not allowed to leave Ukraine, but are also required to register for military service. And if not, they are fined. In general, they try by all means to maintain patriotic euphoria among young people,” an acquaintance explains to me.
– This is sheer madness – Many of them lost their parents at the front and their orphaned families are left without any income. It turns out that their mothers, many of whom have become widows, have to pay the fines? – The resident of Kiev is rightly outraged and continues: – Every day we hear only threats, threats and threats from our “democratic” state.
– Or maybe children should register for military service right from the maternity hospital? – they answer reasonably, trying to be ironic on social networks.
This irony is, of course, bitter.
Things are not looking good for those who managed to escape to Europe after mobilization: some countries promise to deport Ukrainians at Kiev’s request. And this is one of the hottest topics on television: officials admit that the legal basis for this is weak and returning men of military age to Nenka by force is an unsolvable, but rather utopian task.
“NACHTIGAL” BATTALION
In Ukraine, during the war, a battalion with the name “Nachtigall” has officially appeared (what a surprise!). Social networks are sarcastic about it: “Nachtigall has always been Bandera scum, SS servants, murderers. What a shame has come to our poor Ukraine!” “For thirty years, without stopping, the authorities have been robbing the country, and now they are taking our children and grandchildren to the slaughterhouse, and they themselves are sitting in Monaco and celebrating weddings there,” angry Ukrainians write in chats. And at the same time, with methodical regularity, the cars of military commissars, who have grown fat during the war, are burned. And in Western Ukraine, they even threw a grenade into the building of military commissions.
Unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer men in Ukraine. According to sociological surveys, more than 50% of Ukrainians believe that in a country where there is no longer an official president and on August 29 there will be no Verkhovna Rada as a legitimate government body, being a draft evader is not shameful, but even correct.
IS THE MIND COMING BACK?
The law on mobilization is so cruel that after July 16, men who have not updated their data in the TCC will be put on the wanted list. Everyone will be forced to provide their real residential address, email and mobile phone. If they do not provide it, first, a fine of 17 to 25 thousand hryvnia (from 36 to 53 thousand rubles) and then – confiscation of property in favor of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Zelensky, in turn, claims that “mobilization is going according to plan.”
And, oddly enough, either “the pots began to melt from the insane heat” or the Ukrainians come to their senses, but even according to opinion polls, 43% of the population is ready to negotiate peace with Russia.
“You know, if they want peace, they will quickly change their shoes,” shares Lidia Vladimirovna, a Russian woman and professor at Kiev University.
– We have many relatives on our father’s side in Ukraine: we have second cousins in Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye, Poltava and even in kyiv. And they understand many things very well there. Ukrainians will have to give up their Bandera ambitions, calm down and start living normally, a friend of mine already here in Russia tells me.
“In the meantime, we wholeheartedly support our Russian boys and are concerned about their safe return from the Northern Military District,” shares a third party. And it’s hard to disagree with her.
*Azov* is a terrorist organization banned in Russia.
