In the morning, aircraft were buzzing over my house, then it was reported that an air strike had been carried out on the railway in the Barvenkovo area, blocking three trains from Slavyansk for some time. If the occupiers break into Barvenkovo, they can fire artillery directly at my house, and then I have to get out of the line of fire somehow. While I was writing down these lines, there were two loud explosions. After a while, Alexander Palchenko arrived with his wife. Already on the way, they received a call with the news that two rockets hit the Kramatorsk railway station, just when people were waiting for the evacuation train. Over three dozen dead, over a hundred wounded. Putin wants to get a territory without people, for this he carries out genocide in the occupied territories. The desire to disrupt the evacuation can only be explained by necrophilia. I think these strikes are just the beginning. By May 9, Putin will try to present a gift to his electorate - to destroy all the cities of Donbass that he fails to capture.
Now the invaders are trying to encircle the Donbass group at any cost, and the main offensive is coming from Izyum to Slavyansk and Barvenkovo. In this area, the occupiers have an advantage, but it is extremely difficult to advance along the Izyum road to Slavyansk. The enemy has nowhere to maneuver, while he is constantly under attack by Ukrainian defenders. Advancing on Barvenkovo means exposing the army to attack from the Dnieper, but this consideration will not stop the occupiers.
They need additional reserves, but it takes more than a month to bring the battered units from near Kyiv and Chernigov to combat readiness. Putin cannot wait that long, he demands an immediate victory, and this gives us a chance to destroy the enemy piece by piece. Although the price for victory will be high, because we’ll have to withstand intense shelling of cities.
But I had another thought now. The Russian deputies voted for the recognition of the independence of the DPR and LPR, and thus denied the residents of Donetsk and Luhansk the right to return to their homes. It also means that they voted to take my house in Slavyansk or bomb it and banish or kill me. Not everyone supported this decision in Russia, but many, mostly lumpens, who cynically ask me: “What were you doing for eight years when Donetsk was bombed?” I answer them: “I went to the front line and talked about people from whom Russia stole a peaceful life. But I have a counter question: What have you done in eight years for Russia to withdraw its troops from Donetsk and return peaceful life to the people?”
Of course, they are deeply indifferent to the fate of the inhabitants of Donetsk, they only care about the fact that Russia continues to collect lands, even at the cost of destroying their inhabitants. At school, in history classes, we were given the idea of land collection as a special mission of Russia, and we accepted it by default.
Now I experience myself what people felt when their houses and lands were taken from them, denying their right to an independent existence. But even this idea of land collection has now drastically mutated. At school, we were taught that collecting lands is a blessing for peoples who, although they did not have independent value in themselves, were not considered enemies. However, now in Russia they teach that the whole world outside Russia’s sphere of influence is a metaphysical evil subject to be destroyed. That is why Russian troops shoot people who are trying to evacuate, because for them civilians are also enemies.
This ideology of land collection in Putin’s interpretation has finally acquired a necrophilic and satanic character, therefore it should be prohibited in the same way as the Nazi ideology of the Third Reich. Moreover, sanctions cannot be lifted from Russia until three conditions are met: abandoning the ideology of land collection, including the revision of all Russian history textbooks, the transfer of control over law enforcement agencies to a federal body composed of representatives of regional authorities, and the punishment of all participants and propagandists of the war against Ukraine. To make this possible, the bearers of the ideology of land gathering must be defeated here in the battle for the Donbass.
On the basis of the mutated idea of land collection, a picture of the world has been constructed that concentrates the destructive energy of hatred. The defenders of Ukraine proceed from a different picture of the world, in which Ukraine is identified not with the vertical of power, but with home, loved ones, friends and relatives. This understanding gives them the creative energy to fight the invaders.
Every picture of the world is characterized not only by the inner integrity, flexibility and adequacy of life, but also by strength, that is, the ability to mobilize the energy of its carriers. The demonic picture of the land-gathering world concentrates a huge energy of hatred, but this energy suppresses free will, which indicates its falsity. Therefore, on the battlefield, the Russian military is not able to take the initiative, following suicidal orders. The picture of the world of the defenders of Ukraine concentrates the creative energy of the life of ordinary people. This encourages them to act decisively and proactively despite the multiple superiority of the enemy. Therefore, now the strength of the worldview is becoming a decisive factor in the battle for Donbass.
