In the morning, a plane was buzzing over my house, and in the afternoon, a message came that it had already been shot down in the area of Izyum, the pilot was caught. Nice. To the sound of a siren I took my Sunday four kilometers walk around the city to the church «Good News». At the service, a new motive appeared in the sermon - persistent advice to all who hesitate to evacuate to the West.
Sirens didn’t cause much concern before, but as the enemy approaches the city, you begin to take them more seriously. They shoot very close to us now. I enjoy the rain, because the more damp, the more difficult it is for the invaders to maneuver. The enemy is between us and Izyum. He has already tried to advance many times, but every time he was thrown back. And so it has been for several days, which means that until the occupiers have new reserves, the situation will not change. It will be difficult, the risk of the encircling remains. It is very likely that by May 9, Putin will try to destroy the unsubdued cities of Donbass by bombing, but he still cannot win. Even if he decides to use tactical nuclear weapons. In a couple of weeks, everything will be covered with greenery, and it is here in the Donbass he’ll find his final defeat.
Kiev region is completely liberated. Bitter victory. Instead of joy, the horror of the footage from the freed Bucha. There was nothing like that even in Slavyansk under Girkin, famous for the killings of civilians. These are not even bestial cruelties, for the wild beasts, in all their cruelty, are closer to man. This is an outrage, rampage frenzy. In legal terminology – genocide, in religious – Satanism. People are shocked, unable to discuss it. I myself need time to process it internally, so now I am not able to write about what the Russian occupiers were doing there. I met Gena Lysenko. He is a very brave man, when in captivity at Girkin they imitated his execution, he did not even flinch. But now, after seeing the footage from Bucha, he couldn’t talk about it either. We will talk about the monstrous massacre in Bucha, Irpeni, Gostomel later, and much.
Now it is clear what awaited Ukraine if Kyiv fell, as predicted by all the best intelligence in the world: Bucha in every city. The number of civilian casualties would be in the millions. And now I have a question: how can Putin now threaten Ukraine with a tactical nuclear strike if it experienced something worse in Bucha?
The massacre in Bucha will change the minds of people throughout the world. It is no longer possible to trade as before within the framework of real-politics with a bloody maniac. It is impossible to treat as before the church leaders, silencing or justifying the invasion of Russia. Theology itself and the attitude towards religion cannot remain the same as before. And it is no longer possible to forgive the unwillingness to take responsibility for what is happening.
I understand that from the point of real-politics, it is beneficial for Ukraine to conclude a truce with Russia, reducing its losses, so that later the West will economically crush it with sanctions. But I don’t understand how this is possible after the Bucha massacre, and how it is generally possible to negotiate with total evil. I also don’t see how a state that has committed such crimes can physically exist. How could Nazi Germany, after the gas chambers, having been defeated by the anti-Hitler coalition, return to its borders and coexist peacefully with other European countries? In Bucha, Putin finally finished off Russia. If any of the Russians has a hope that the war will end, and then it will be possible to return to their old habitual life, it is in vain. Our small apocalypse has already come, and the past cannot be returned. Of course, one can try to stay in the stage of denial, anger, bargaining, but still have to accept the reality.
