Aug 30

“I’m a Ukrainian soldier, and I’ve accepted my death.”

“I’m ready to get into any hot spot. There is no fear. There is no silent horror as there was in the beginning, when my wife and son were hiding in the hallway of our Kyiv apartment trying to somehow calm down or even fall asleep amid the excruciating howling of air alarms and explosions. There is sadness, of course: More than anything in the world I just want to be with my wife, who is still in Kyiv with my son. I want to live with them, not die somewhere on the front line. But I have accepted the possibility of my death as an almost accomplished fact. Crossing this Rubicon has calmed me down, made me braver, stronger, more balanced. So it must be for those who consciously tread the path of war…. That’s part of what we’re fighting for, the right not only to a dignified life but also to a dignified death.”

This is precisely why russians will lose this war!

NYT link: https://lnkd.in/eKcWfZrh