Gunner of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Donbass front.
Photo: REUTERS
The striking slogan of Ukrainian propagandists about “a united and independent Ukraine” is refuted by life itself in the cruelest way.
Just a few days ago, an adviser to the head of the President’s Office, Misha Podolyak, declared bankruptcy in an interview with Deutsche Welle that, they say, Kiev cannot allow men to go abroad, because Ukraine should not cease to exist. due to the fact that someone wanted to cross the border. And the next day he posts photos of Rome on his TG channel. He came to Italy for a meeting with Ukrainian businessmen and does not care that “what is available for Jupiter is not available for the bull.” By the way, judging by Arestovich’s speeches about his “combat” past and present (at least in terms of mood), he would be indispensable, for example, in the Artemovsk (Bakhmut) area, where he could show with the example how to set up a platoon fortress so no one goes anywhere. But for some reason he doesn’t lure him there. Although he is familiar with weapons, and “served in intelligence”, and during the “landing” in Kiev, he shot from a window on Bankova Street and was Zelensky’s military adviser during the critical days of the Ukrainian president. Yes, and he meets the mobilization criteria 100%.
And there are still three hundred such people in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, if not more (the rest of the women). But no one has ever found them in the trenches either. They prefer to pose with machine guns these days where people, seeing a man with a gun, reflexively start crossing themselves. Only lions! Like, for example, the journalist Dmitry Gordon, who has spent years showing how to slit an enemy’s throat with his bare hands on a silicone mannequin.
As for the rest of the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada, you should not turn to them with such unpleasant questions and spoil the mood when they stand in line for money at the checkout. How for what money? 396 deputies from the Verkhovna Rada received in February a 100% salary increase in January 2023 for “labor intensity” and special conditions.
It should be noted that in parallel, the Nezalezhnaya government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and at the initiative of Volodymyr Zelensky, cut military payments to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And now, since February, they began to receive not 100 thousand hryvnias, but 30 thousand. And the combat assignment was also cut off. Now the Armed Forces of Ukraine are paid only for the days when they go on the offensive or actively defend. Also, all this must be ensured by the unit commander. That you can not only “draw combat” and not write them, but you can also receive “loot” (a percentage of “combat” ones) from the fighter for such registration, and for an additional “reward” you can write “combat” to those who sit in the “second line” or even further, in the rear. So, among the commanders of units and subdivisions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine it is now very difficult, almost impossible to find the poor who live only on official army allowances.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmygal.
Photo: REUTERS
But be that as it may, while one Ukraine is eating free money that fell from heaven in taverns (or attaching it somewhere), twisting combinations in contracts with the army and receiving geshefts from bribes, the other is rotting in the trenches at the same time. Where they are later devoured by dogs and rats. And all so that the first Ukraine could continue to receive and spend money for its own pleasure.
