The weather is sunny, warm. I’m writing to the sound of artillery cannonade. Ten days have already passed since the occupiers launched an active offensive in the Donbass. This is the hottest time. The fighting has reached an apogee, and the Russian command is burning its last reserves. So far, the attackers have a noticeable preponderance of forces. From the Izyum direction, they moved even closer to Barvenkovo, want to block the railway to Slavyansk. Kremennaya, Zarechnoye were captured from the Lugansk direction and now they are dangerously close to Liman. They are trying to capture Yampol to get to the rear of Slavyansk and Lysichansk at the same time. The enemy offensive is moving very slowly, not enough to achieve a decisive success, but the threat of the Russians getting close enough to Slavyansk and starting to shoot at us with artillery is quite real.
So far, Slavyansk has not been systematically shelled, although there are occasional hits in the city. The invaders are close enough to hit us with artillery, but the Ukrainian military does not allow this, they constantly maneuver and do not occupy any stationary positions. I already know about this not theoretically, but from the sounds of a cannonade - firing at enemies from our side is heard either very close, or very far away, while the invaders either not keeping pace or unable to retaliate, which is always assumed in artillery duels. As always, the tactics of the Russian offensive are suicidal.
If from the very beginning of the invasion the entire blow fell on the Donbass, it would hardly have been possible to withstand. However, Russian troops began to attack in all directions at the same time and failed.
Now a new offensive has begun in the Donbass, the logic goes that the enemy should have learned from mistakes. Nothing of this kind! Contrary to military science and common sense, he again launched an offensive in several directions simultaneously - on Zaporozhye, Krivoy Rog and Nikolaev. The result is an unprecedented increase in losses among the occupiers in recent days. Although heavy weapons still showed their worth here, the first batches of which were supplied to us by the allies.
The large-scale invasion of Ukraine is an act of suicide by Russia. And even now, when the Russian command has a chance to achieve local success, it still chooses from all options the one that is suicidal. Whence such a craving for suicide, which is found at all levels?
The fact is that any cultivation of death sooner or later gives rise to a suicidal tendency. A real cult of death developed in the Soviet Union: the coat of arms and other Soviet symbols were of a necrophilic nature, they composed songs and made films about heroic death and suicidal deeds. However, no propaganda can subjugate an individual, contrary to his or her free self-determination. I believe that neither upbringing, nor culture, nor nationality, nor beliefs, nor even one’s own thoughts define a person. Only in deeds does a person become who he is, because it is in deeds, and not in thoughts, that self-determination for good or for evil occurs.
Likewise, the future of a country is determined in free choice through the actions that its citizens take. Such an act for Russian citizens was the act of voting for Putin in 2000, when everyone knew that FSB agents were caught in an attempt to blow up a house in Ryazan. Everyone knew about this, but most did not want to accept this knowledge. However, not believing the facts is also a free choice. Having supported Putin, they agreed to the authorities, which physically killed them. I cannot interpret this otherwise than as a suicidal act, which was bound to lead to the suicide of the country.
This finale was brought closer by the murder of its own citizens, and not only journalists and oppositionists (this can at least be explained by the logic of the political struggle), but random people. In particular, when the terrorists hijacked the planes, they were shot down along with the passengers, and when the school was seized, it was shot down along with the children. There are those who will say that there is a reason for this. After all, when the authorities demonstrated that they would destroy terrorists together with hostages, the attacks ceased. However, once you are in this position, you can't stop. Guided by this logic, Putin began to destroy entire cities, and now, in order to force the West to capitulate, he demonstrates that he is ready to use nuclear weapons, regardless of the victims from a retaliatory nuclear strike.
The whole world wonders how, in the twenty-first century, an entire country consented to its own suicide. In fact, not all Russians support the war with Ukraine, although a significant number do. First, these are people with a self-destructive complex who instinctively try to destroy their own lives and those of others, and secondly, those who once committed this suicidal act - supported Putin. However, most Russians are simply unable to accept reality, to acknowledge that the worst has already happened, so they do not want to hear anything about the war, hoping in vain to wake up from a nightmare. The third part of Russians understands everything and is horrified that their country has committed suicide. They see that there is no more future, and now it is not clear what to do.
From the initial consent to the suicide of the country, when people voted for Putin in 2000, to the act of suicide in 2022, Russia received so much money from the export of raw materials that Mars could have been developed on them. However, Putin has made a titanic effort to dispose of the country's windfall profits, and now, with maniacal persistence, he is disposing of the Russian army in Ukraine. What is this but a manifestation of suicidal tendencies?
Now the world has realized that in the entire history of civilization, humankind has never been in such danger, when the use of nuclear weapons depends on the mental state of just one person obsessed with this idea. Therefore, the whole world has united against Russia the same way as it would have united in the face of an alien threat, since no one, except Putin's supporters, wants the suicide of humankind.
