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Nov 3
How is it going in Ukraine, a business partner from US is asking. Here is my reply to him:
βI am in Kyiv, so things in Kyiv are quite stable, as we have a very good air defense here, so Russians are not even trying to launch rockets on Kyiv now. So Kyiv lives almost like normal. And many people and businesses from the eastern regions have moved here. If you switch off the news and judge by what you see on the streets, only occasional people in uniform and some camouflage-painted vehicles remind you that the war is still raging.
But of course, we understand we are just lucky to live in the capital and far from the frontline, and that no one guarantees the balance will remain the same. Russians still attack without counting their dead and will continue, their population is 4 times bigger than ours, and they never cared for their people, they will just burn as many as they need. And we know very well that they won’t stop unless defeated, no peace is possible unless they retreat, and whoever promotes negotiations is in fact just proposing to give them a break until they attack again and take another piece. So while physically we are fine, the feeling of walking on the razor’s edge is always with us…”
That was the answer from the Kyiv office. But on the battlefields, we are losing people every day. The best people. Unlike Russia, we are not using junk expandable troops recruited in prisons, many of our soldiers are professionals taken from every industry of our economy. Several employees and subcontractors from my company are now in the trenches. Also, other cities are not so well defended from Russian rockets and every day we have civilian victims.
But through all this pain, we understand that peace with Russia is not possible unless they return the occupied lands. Giving them anything means encouraging further attacks. Not winning them now means handing this job to our children and grandchildren. Letting them win means showing the dictators and terrorists around the world that they can achieve their goals by brute force and corruption of democratic elites. You already see that Ukraine is not the only democratic country attacked, and I am afraid there will be more if Russia is given any chance.
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βBut on the battlefields, we are losing people every day. The best people. Unlike Russia, we are not using junk expandable troops recruited in prisons, many of our soldiers are professionals taken from every industry of our economy. Several employees and subcontractors from my company are now in the trenches. Also, other cities are not so well defended from Russian rockets, and every day we have civilian victims.β
This is putlerβs trump card (pun intended). Putler is happy to trade his worthless toilet refuse for human beings. Ukraine needs 4 orcs smoked for each valuable Ukrainian soldier lost, just to maintain parity.
I am very much afraid that without a massive increase in help for Ukraine, the defenders will simply lose too many fighters.
Ukrainians with military experience in the US, Canada and other countries with a sizable diaspora must be tapped. Plus the allies should hire merc battalions.
UK Soldier Fighting for Ukraine Remembers On Kyiv’s Maidan His Fallen Comrades:
UK soldier Shareef Amin is a volunteer fighter with the Ukrainian army against the Russian invaders. Although badly wounded in action, he has returned to continue helping Ukraine. On Remembrance Day, he tells Kyiv Post’s Chief Editor Bohdan Nahaylo on Kyiv’s Maidan what motivates him and about his fallen international and Ukrainian comrades:
This British volunteer explains why foreigners who volunteer without military experience are a hindrance, not a help.
But more experienced volunteers are needed:
God bless his soul and all the others, too, who stand their ground against this deeply evil fascist horde of murderous sub-human monsters.
Shareef is a great guy. Full of humanity. I remember him in a video before he was critically injured. Heβs been through hell but still come back to do whatever he can to help.
His slightly alarming appearance reminds me of an experience I had back in 2015. I was in Ukraine meeting a friend of mine. He asked me if Iβd like to meet a soldier whoβd just come back from the front line for a brief respite.
I said yes of course. I packed a container for him to take back to his brothers-in-arms, containing cigs, lighters, sweets, toiletries, chewing gum, dried meat etc.
We were sitting in the cafe and this fellow walked in. He looked very aggressive and spoiling for a fight. The waitress was afraid of him, but he turned out to be a courteous and spiritual warrior. He told us some of his story. I donβt remember much of it, but he was an ethnic Russian; an orphan who ended up in Lithuania as a child and then came to Ukraine, where he was put in an orphanage.
They asked him when he was of age if he would like to join the army, which would be a sort of substitute family for him. By the time he was 20, he was in the trenches in Donbas.
His achievements were such that the army, via the church, gave him a one room flat so heβd always have a home. The army was his life.
I hope heβs doing ok now. Of course he might be an officer by now.
Thanks for sharing this interesting story, Scradge. It’s unfortunate when a child must grow up like he did. I’m glad that he found his place in life, although he deserves better. However, he and his comrades are doing the most important job on this planet right now, and that’s something big, I suppose. I also hope that he’s doing well.
He gave me the pin from a RuZZian grenade as a souvenir, which I still haveβ¦
Cool!