The
fifteenth day of the war is ending, marked by the fact that it was during this
period that Putin planned to finish the complete occupation of Ukraine. Before
our eyes, a total military catastrophe of the Russian army, which has moved to
medieval tactics of terror and civilian extermination, opens.
I was lucky, Slavyansk was not injured. I counted four cruise missiles, the explosions of which were heard from my house. There were more. Ukrainian air defense works perfectly. It's cold and it's quiet today, so I feel relaxed after yesterday when all the time with a few breaks warning horns were howling. The cellar in the yard is cold and sitting there all the time is not an option, so I just ignored the air alert. Fifty kilometers away from us in Izyum there was a heavy battle. The success of the Ukrainian forces on all fronts was certainly gratifying, but that is little consolation if the Russian occupiers breakthrough here on our side. After all, Izyum is the key to the entire Donbass, that’s why the occupiers could choose it as a main direction of attack and push the defense with their superior forces. Then the next point on their way would be Slavyansk, and just on the side where my house is located. How Russian troops act on the offensive - everyone knows. They’re just tearing down all the suspicious houses, not asking if anyone is there, and so they’re moving through the city.
To be captured by the Russian military is even more terrible than to stay without light, heat, and water in the destroyed house. I have a Russian passport, so they wouldn't go easy on me as a «traitor». They could have shot me. However today it became known that the Ukrainian troops grinded down enemy forces and kept the southern half of Izyum on our side of the river, so my house is safe now. Immensely grateful to the Ukrainian military!
Along with the successes on all fronts, there’s tragic news. Russian troops bombed the operating maternity hospital in the besieged Mariupol. It wasn’t an accident, they knew there were women and babies. The same way they bombed a maternity hospital in Grozny twenty-three years ago. As in that war, right now they are demolishing the neighborhoods of Mariupol and Kharkov. They’re mining green corridors, shelling refugee buses. In Mariupol, people not only die from bombing but also cold and thirst. Then in 1999, I publicly called the actions of Russian troops in Chechnya genocide. Now, in 2022, I assert that the Russian occupiers are subjecting all the inhabitants of Mariupol to genocide in the literal meaning of the word.
Also in other cities, kindergartens, schools, and hospitals have been targeted. There are increasing reports of massacres of civilians. The Wagnerians are particularly vicious, having experience in both Syria and Africa. Now they have managed to «distinguish» not only by killing civilians but also by torture.
We face irrational evil, or rather, its specific variant - necrophilia, which manifests itself not only in atrocities against civilians but also against own soldiers. The Russian command is chasing them to certain death, a column by column without military cover. Yesterday, the columns thrown on the Crooked Horn were shot on the march. And so is everywhere. There is no point in these attacks. Meanwhile, more than half of the Russian army consists of ordinary conscripts of eighteen and nineteen years.
For them,
what's happening is hell. At night they have to freeze in the fields, as it is
dangerous to stay in cities and villages - they can be set on fire, for they
are hated by everyone. No food, no fuel, and death waiting around every corner.
It’s pointless to wait for the rotation since the «commander-in-chief» has put
all the reserves and now only requires them to go into suicide attacks. The
purpose of the war is unclear, and there is no question of victory. The entire
200,000 army of invasion awaits the same fate as Napoleon’s army in Russia,
either captivity or death. And no hope. There are different circles of hell,
this one is the hell of hopelessness.
