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I'm Ukrainian

[Yigal Levin @YigalLevin]

This is a very strange war, probably one of the strangest I've ever studied or witnessed.

Off the top of my head I can name about 20 glaring strangeness — about Ukraine and about Russia alike — that defy any reasonable explanation.

Most of those strangeness will have to wait until the war is over, but one — about Russia — I'll go ahead and name.

Russia's death toll is approaching half a million, and by the time you read this, it may have already reached or surpassed that mark.

Losses can sometimes be justified if they yield dividends — but that's not the case with today's Russia or the war it's waging.

I genuinely cannot understand why, after the failed take Kyiv, Russian leadership decided to grind its army year after year, head-on, into Ukraine's most fortified and defended lines.

History has rarely, if ever, seen anything like it — a massive army taken and methodically, year after year, smashed against a wall for minimal gain.

Someone might push back: Ukraine, too, attacked head-on into the most fortified positions in 2023.

True — but after getting burned, Ukrainians drew lessons. What followed was the Kursk operation (a change of direction), robotization, a search for new military solutions.

And before that came the Kharkiv offensive, the defense of Kyiv, the liberation of Kherson through bridge-cutting and encirclement — and much more.

Ukraine's strangeness lies elsewhere — but certainly not in operational art. There they've demonstrated what any cat knows: touch fire once, don't touch it again.

And don't blame Soviet-era generals — even Soviet generals understood and could apply not just the ABC's of military art but higher concepts as well.

But forget the generals — even stranger is why the army itself goes along with it.

Fine, the soldiers — they're terrified, ground down, and cowed. But what about junior and mid-level officers?

Don't questions occur to them — elementary, basic questions — that with a front and theater stretching over 3,000 km, with directions that are either poorly defended or vulnerable, choosing again and again, year after year, the most heavily fortified theater and axis is, to put it mildly, a deliberate strategy to destroy your own army?

The Ukrainians have been slowly falling back all these years, methodically building new lines while simultaneously destroying and grinding down the Russian army.

Looking at that half-million dead, the thought creeps in — the one some Z-bloggers themselves have written about: that this isn't a war, it's a human sacrifice.

Calling it a war in any genuine sense is indeed difficult — because what Russia is doing is simply not how things are done, even when you're Soviet-trained and don't know how to fight.

Because if a man picks up a sword and starts stabbing himself with it — piercing his own hands and feet — you wouldn't say: well, he just doesn't know how to fence — Soviets, you understand...

A lot of lyrical prose has been written about this, and even more clever arguments and attempts to explain it rationally — but all of it misses the point.

The Kremlin is hundreds of people if you count only the very top, and thousands if you include the rest of the apparatus — plus the General Staff, plus senior and junior officers — that's tens of thousands of people.

And not one of them had the basic thought that you cannot smash an army to pieces and burn hundreds of thousands of men alive, head-on, directly into the enemy's fortifications?

The only case we've seen where someone tried to break out of this sacrificial meat grinder was Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner group.

How that ended is well known — but what's not clear is why everyone else is fine with all of this.

And this isn't about humanism — it's about basic utilitarianism. You need an army, an economy, equipment — especially if you have ambitions.

And Russia has them.

But Russia is hurtling toward the abyss and shows no sign of stopping — and fine, the leadership are idiots — but why is everyone else okay with it?

History knows many wars — successful and unsuccessful, justified and not, long and bloody, fast and short — but the war the Kremlin is waging today is not just stupid, senseless, and bloody. It is also profoundly strange.

[YuriiTaran @YuriiTaran]

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[Yigal Levin @YigalLevin]

Every morning, when I wake up, I read the reports — that’s the first thing I do, even before I have a cup of coffee.

Every morning, I read how Ukrainians hit another Russian oil refinery or railway substation in Russia, or struck another headquarters or logistics hub.

The fact that these strikes are effective is confirmed not only by Russians themselves, but also by objective reports from the ground, including hard evidence: Russia is experiencing fuel shortages.

Just think about it: Russia is running out of fuel. Iran, is that you? Log back in!

And every morning, while reading these reports, I also learn that Russians bombed something in Ukraine again and killed more civilians.

Today in Kyiv, as a result of a Russian strike, civilians were killed, including a child, and dozens more were injured.

No, the Russians do strike strategically important targets, too — whenever another informant leaks intelligence, warehouses or workshops get hit.

The Russians bomb training ranges if some careless and, frankly, incompetent officers gather troops there again.

Russian reconnaissance drones fly all the way to Kyiv, seeking quality targets to strike.

But at the same time, part of their strikes are aimed deliberately at civilians — I’ll emphasize this again: deliberately.

Even completely neutral Western military experts, who do their best to assess events coldly and objectively, end up agreeing: yes, this is a direct and deliberate attack on civilians.

Russia is waging a deliberate campaign against Ukraine’s civilian population, and this is happening for one simple reason: no one cares.

Russians don’t care, including the so-called good Russians, most of whom are only concerned with themselves in exile and have little interest in Ukrainians.

Russian soldiers don’t care, as there are no punishments or consequences for killing civilians: shoot wherever you want — you’ll even get a medal for it.

The world’s most powerful nations don’t care, which isn’t surprising: states are the coldest of monsters, as Nietzsche said.

And when even Ukraine’s true friend Petr Pavel from little Czechia says openly that they help Ukrainians not out of love for them, but because it’s in their own interest — Europe’s security — what can be said about everyone else?

This is why only Ukrainians themselves can hold Russians accountable: no one else will, no one else needs or wants to — not even well-intentioned allies like Petr Pavel.

Every death must not be forgotten, every person killed must be honored.

Never, not for a minute, not for a moment, forget them.

As for us, all of us must ask ourselves every night before bed: what did I do today to make life worse for the Russians, to make them howl and whine?

Even by half a percent, even by a millimeter, but the key is to act: constant dripping wears away the stone — the key is to act.

Act — because it’s necessary, because it’s right, because it’s just.

[Yigal Levin @YigalLevin]

One of the most important lessons of recent years is that the era of political onanism and cartoonish facades is over.

Now, whenever someone makes a statement, it must be taken with the utmost seriousness.

When Putin says he wants to take all of Ukraine — that is exactly what he wants and is trying to do.

When Hamas says it wants to slaughter all Jews — that is exactly what it wants and is trying to do.

When Iran says it wants to destroy Israel — that is exactly what it wants and is trying to do.

When the United States says it is ready to strike — it truly means it and has the capability to do so.

The next step lies with Europe: to finally understand that “signals” from Russia are not hints — they are direct messages.

Europe must not only support a Fighting Ukraine, but finally commit its own forces.

It must send its soldiers to assist Kyiv — at least initially to secure rear areas somewhere along the Polish border.

It must do so because this is a European war, and Europe’s future depends on how this war develops.

I hope that the events unfolding in the Middle East will give more courage and confidence to European elites and leaders.

What is happening now clearly shows: tyrants can and should be beaten.

[Mi Nerva @SkorpiOnIL]

Анна Гин:
А мы поехали на выставку собак. Да, она проходит прямо сейчас в Харькове.

В прифронтовом городе, где каждый сегодня молился, чтобы дожит�� до утра. Я не исключение.

Каюсь, сидя ночью в тамбуре, я просила создателя, чтобы только быстро, без мучений. И желательно всем вместе, сразу. С собакой, птицей и рыбками.

Да, сегодня многие мысленно прощались с жизнью. Это реально, без преувеличений. Собачники тут друг другу признаются – не верили, что выживут.

– Я написала дочери, что люблю ее, – говорит хозяйка рыжего лабрадора.

– А я внучке переслал пароль от своей банковской карты, – смеется мужчина с биглем.

Смех сегодня у всех нервный, с надрывом. Ночь действительно была адовая. Мы тут всякого ��а три года навидались в Ха, но такого, простите, пиздеца никто не припомнит.

Несколько часов подряд всё летело, свистело, жужжало и взрывалась одновременно. Дроны, авиабомбы и ракеты, казалось, перебивали друг друга. Дома качались, на парковках срабатывала сигнализация, повсюду вспыхивали пожары.

Грохот был такой силы, что абсолютно глухие люди, его "слышали" из-за сумасшедшей вибрации. Черный дым и сейчас стоит над городом.

По официальным данным, российская федерация сегодня ночью нанесла по Харькову около шестидесяти мощнейших ударов. Есть погиб��ие и раненые, их число меняется каждый час.

С первым же взрывом Гектор стал метаться по квартире. Пытался забраться под ванную, под коврик, под стол, ко мне на руки. Я вся исцарапанная, как жертва домашнего насилия.

В какой-то момент мы пошли на улицу. Просто потому, что на 17-м этаже невыносимо – не только слышно, но и видно каждый дрон, каждую ракету. И будто летит всё это ровно в твое окно.

От настоящего страха тошнит. И дрожат руки.

На улице не лучше: дым, гарь, крики, плач. И люди бегут к метро. Я с 2022-го не видела такой картины. Две женщины бежали к метро с малышами, завернутыми в одеяла.

Твари, варвары, нелюди оголтелые. Как еще можно назвать вырод��ов, швыряющих смерть на спящий город?!

Вчера ночью кошмарили всю Украину, а сегодня Харьков. Городу-герою выделили отдельный день. Честь, мать вашу.

Кто-то говорит "это месть за операцию паутина". А раньше, что было? Три года – это за что месть? Да, такого масштабного обстрела за несколько часов еще не было. Но все же, в Харькове и области каждый день гибнут люди.

Все эти гребаные 1200 дней полномасштабной войны.

Я так и не смогла уснуть, даже после отбоя. Тем более у нас на десять утра выставка запланирована. И её не отменили. Это же Харьков.

Надела футболку по случаю и поехали. Город горит. Гектор занял второе место.

Мы будем жить. И работать. И помогать военным. И смеят��ся.

Хер вам, а не Харьков.

[Vadym Blonsky @vadymblonsky]

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