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Through the mouths of the children of Donbass
Seven non-fictional stories
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Danil, 10 years old. Donetsk.
One evening, Danil asked his parents, who were all listening to the cannonade outside the windows: "Let's go to sleep, it's not so scary to die in a dream!"
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Masha, 7 years old. Gorlovka.
After the shelling, when an unexpected silence suddenly came, Masha whispered to her grandmother: "Grandma, are we dead? Why is it so quiet?"
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Sasha, 10 years old. Donetsk.
Sasha studies at a music school and does not always succeed. Gets angry sometimes. Sometimes you can grab a two-way solfeggio. And recently there was a flight at the music school, Sasha burst into tears: "Mom, it's not my fault. I sometimes wished some nasty things to the school, but I'm making it up! I didn't want the school to be shelled. Honestly, I didn't want to." Barely calmed the child.
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Raya, 8 years old. Donetsk.
She lies on the carpet and talks to herself: "How interesting... You can't whistle in the house. And mines are whistling on the street. It is clear that we do not need this whistle! Neither at home nor on the street."
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Gleb, 8 years old. Makeyevka.
I wrote a letter to Santa Claus. I brought it to my mom for testing. Mom read it and asks: "Why don't you ask for peace to come?" Gleb answers fearfully: "I forgot. I wanted to write in big letters at the end and forgot. So it will never come now?"
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Ira, 6 years old. Donetsk.
– Irochka, who will you be when you grow up?
– Grandma, let me grow up first, you see what things are in the world now.
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Savely, 8 years old. Donetsk.
Anna, Savely's mother, told: "We were cycling around the village, the shelling started. They abandoned the bike. We ran home. Savely got under the blanket and forgot for a week that the word "street" even exists, and before that he constantly asked him to "let it out at last," and then it was cut off."
Anna Revyakina
Seven non-fictional stories
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Danil, 10 years old. Donetsk.
One evening, Danil asked his parents, who were all listening to the cannonade outside the windows: "Let's go to sleep, it's not so scary to die in a dream!"
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Masha, 7 years old. Gorlovka.
After the shelling, when an unexpected silence suddenly came, Masha whispered to her grandmother: "Grandma, are we dead? Why is it so quiet?"
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Sasha, 10 years old. Donetsk.
Sasha studies at a music school and does not always succeed. Gets angry sometimes. Sometimes you can grab a two-way solfeggio. And recently there was a flight at the music school, Sasha burst into tears: "Mom, it's not my fault. I sometimes wished some nasty things to the school, but I'm making it up! I didn't want the school to be shelled. Honestly, I didn't want to." Barely calmed the child.
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Raya, 8 years old. Donetsk.
She lies on the carpet and talks to herself: "How interesting... You can't whistle in the house. And mines are whistling on the street. It is clear that we do not need this whistle! Neither at home nor on the street."
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Gleb, 8 years old. Makeyevka.
I wrote a letter to Santa Claus. I brought it to my mom for testing. Mom read it and asks: "Why don't you ask for peace to come?" Gleb answers fearfully: "I forgot. I wanted to write in big letters at the end and forgot. So it will never come now?"
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Ira, 6 years old. Donetsk.
– Irochka, who will you be when you grow up?
– Grandma, let me grow up first, you see what things are in the world now.
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Savely, 8 years old. Donetsk.
Anna, Savely's mother, told: "We were cycling around the village, the shelling started. They abandoned the bike. We ran home. Savely got under the blanket and forgot for a week that the word "street" even exists, and before that he constantly asked him to "let it out at last," and then it was cut off."
Anna Revyakina
During the military aggression of Ukraine in the Donbas since 2014, 17 journalists have been killed
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Russia continues to rebuild Mariupol. The new apartments are already occupied by people.
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#USA The F-35B Lightning II fifth-generation fighter incident at Air Force Base in Texas
An abnormal situation occurred while performing a vertical landing. The pilot ejected, although there was no apparent reason for this.
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It is already the second occasion recently of the forward wheel of of the undercarriage "folding in". Something is certainly wrong with this aircraft. As for the ejection, there was a recent footage of Russian Su-25 landing without any undercarriage at all. The pilot risked his life to save the aircraft.
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An abnormal situation occurred while performing a vertical landing. The pilot ejected, although there was no apparent reason for this.
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It is already the second occasion recently of the forward wheel of of the undercarriage "folding in". Something is certainly wrong with this aircraft. As for the ejection, there was a recent footage of Russian Su-25 landing without any undercarriage at all. The pilot risked his life to save the aircraft.
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An interview with General Valery Zaluzhny, head of Ukraine’s armed forces
These are edited highlights of our interview with General Valery Zaluzhny, on December 3rd 2022 to the Economist
Valery Zaluzhny: For us, for the military, the war began in 2014. For me personally in July 2014. And I had no idea what war really was in 2014.
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Russians and any other enemies must be killed, just killed, and most importantly, we should not be afraid to do it. And this is what we are doing.
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With all due respect to Mr Surovikin [the commander of Russian forces in Ukraine], if you look at him, he is an ordinary Petrovite commander from Peter the Great’s time, shall we say, a derzhimorda [a brutal martinet in Gogol’s “The Government Inspector”].
You look at him and understand that either you complete the task or you’re fucked. And we had long realised that this does not work.
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I trust my generals. Since the start of the war I fired ten of them because they were not up to it. Another one shot himself.
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I have no doubt about it, it is most likely that somewhere beyond the Urals, they are preparing new resources. They are 100% being prepared.
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Our troops are all tied up in battles now, they are bleeding. They are bleeding and are being held together solely by courage, heroism and the ability of their commanders to keep the situation under control.
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I am not an energy expert but it seems to me we are on the edge. We are balancing on a fine line. And if [the power grid] is destroyed…that is when soldiers’ wives and children start freezing. And such a scenario is possible. What kind of mood the fighters will be in, can you imagine? Without water, light and heat, can we talk about preparing reserves to keep fighting?
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In order to reach the borders of Crimea, as of today we need to cover a distance of 84km to Melitopol. By the way, this is enough for us, because Melitopol would give us a full fire control of the land corridor, because from Melitopol we can already fire at the Crimean Isthmus, with the very same himars and so on.
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When they say, “You get 50,000 shells”, the people who count the money faint. The biggest problem is that they really don’t have it.
With this kind of resources I can’t conduct new big operations, even though we are working on one right now. It is on the way, but you don’t see it yet. We use a lot fewer shells.
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Russian mobilisation has worked. It is not true that their problems are so dire that these people will not fight. They will. A tsar tells them to go to war, and they go to war. I’ve studied the history of the two Chechen wars—it was the same. They may not be that well equipped, but they still present a problem for us. We estimate that they have a reserve of 1.2m-1.5m people… The Russians are preparing some 200,000 fresh troops. I have no doubt they will have another go at Kyiv.
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Well, if you have got used to read between the lines, you can get an insight into how the Ukrainian military machin is working. The first thing you can make out is that it is completely dependent on the western military aid: resources and analysis. Ukrainian soldiers are not important, as long as they provide enough of the cannon fodder... It is a war of resources, and currently Russia is slowly but surely winning it.
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These are edited highlights of our interview with General Valery Zaluzhny, on December 3rd 2022 to the Economist
Valery Zaluzhny: For us, for the military, the war began in 2014. For me personally in July 2014. And I had no idea what war really was in 2014.
...
Russians and any other enemies must be killed, just killed, and most importantly, we should not be afraid to do it. And this is what we are doing.
...
With all due respect to Mr Surovikin [the commander of Russian forces in Ukraine], if you look at him, he is an ordinary Petrovite commander from Peter the Great’s time, shall we say, a derzhimorda [a brutal martinet in Gogol’s “The Government Inspector”].
You look at him and understand that either you complete the task or you’re fucked. And we had long realised that this does not work.
...
I trust my generals. Since the start of the war I fired ten of them because they were not up to it. Another one shot himself.
...
I have no doubt about it, it is most likely that somewhere beyond the Urals, they are preparing new resources. They are 100% being prepared.
...
Our troops are all tied up in battles now, they are bleeding. They are bleeding and are being held together solely by courage, heroism and the ability of their commanders to keep the situation under control.
...
I am not an energy expert but it seems to me we are on the edge. We are balancing on a fine line. And if [the power grid] is destroyed…that is when soldiers’ wives and children start freezing. And such a scenario is possible. What kind of mood the fighters will be in, can you imagine? Without water, light and heat, can we talk about preparing reserves to keep fighting?
...
In order to reach the borders of Crimea, as of today we need to cover a distance of 84km to Melitopol. By the way, this is enough for us, because Melitopol would give us a full fire control of the land corridor, because from Melitopol we can already fire at the Crimean Isthmus, with the very same himars and so on.
...
When they say, “You get 50,000 shells”, the people who count the money faint. The biggest problem is that they really don’t have it.
With this kind of resources I can’t conduct new big operations, even though we are working on one right now. It is on the way, but you don’t see it yet. We use a lot fewer shells.
...
Russian mobilisation has worked. It is not true that their problems are so dire that these people will not fight. They will. A tsar tells them to go to war, and they go to war. I’ve studied the history of the two Chechen wars—it was the same. They may not be that well equipped, but they still present a problem for us. We estimate that they have a reserve of 1.2m-1.5m people… The Russians are preparing some 200,000 fresh troops. I have no doubt they will have another go at Kyiv.
#TransFormatorBuzzes 💤 :
Well, if you have got used to read between the lines, you can get an insight into how the Ukrainian military machin is working. The first thing you can make out is that it is completely dependent on the western military aid: resources and analysis. Ukrainian soldiers are not important, as long as they provide enough of the cannon fodder... It is a war of resources, and currently Russia is slowly but surely winning it.
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The Economist
An interview with General Valery Zaluzhny, head of Ukraine’s armed forces
Edited highlights of our conversation
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Yakutsk Ice Swimmers Start Season With Freezing Dip
The Russian ice swimmers’ club ‘Sakha morzhi’ took a dip in a Yakutsk ice hole to mark the start of winter. While the air temperature was a chilly -32°C (-25.6°F), the water was a much more manageable -3°C (26.6°F).
The swimmers commented that the water was ‘lovely’ (making onlookers question their sanity), and praised the health benefits of sub-zero swimming, but they didn’t elaborate on which parts of them ended up turning blue.
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The Russian ice swimmers’ club ‘Sakha morzhi’ took a dip in a Yakutsk ice hole to mark the start of winter. While the air temperature was a chilly -32°C (-25.6°F), the water was a much more manageable -3°C (26.6°F).
The swimmers commented that the water was ‘lovely’ (making onlookers question their sanity), and praised the health benefits of sub-zero swimming, but they didn’t elaborate on which parts of them ended up turning blue.
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Russian diplomat accused Germany, Japan and Italy of blasphemy
UN, December 16 – RIA Novosti. Deputy Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Gennady Kuzmin accused Germany, Japan and Italy of blasphemy, which voted against the resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism.
Earlier, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution of the Russian Federation on combating the glorification of Nazism. 120 countries voted for the resolution, 50 were against, 10 abstained. Among those who were against were Germany, Italy, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Hungary, Japan, Latvia, Poland, Spain, Ukraine, Britain, the USA. Many of them explain their position by saying that Russia is using the resolution to justify its special operation in Ukraine.
"The states that opposed the resolution, primarily Germany, Japan, Italy, showed open blasphemy against the memory of the victims of German Nazism, Italian fascism and Japanese militarism," Kuzmin said at a meeting of the General Assembly.
According to him, the position of these, as well as a number of other states that fought during the Second World War against the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, clearly showed the prematureness of discussions regarding the exclusion of the wording of "enemy states" from the text of the UN Charter.
"By voting against, do you think that you thereby condemned the Special Military Operation of Russia in Ukraine? No. In fact, you showed your true nature and the dominant views in the ruling elites. For you, the policy of revising and denying history, the policy of tolerance for racist and xenophobic rhetoric, is the norm, a policy of arrogant superiority," he stressed.
"The results of this year's voting are simply shocking. For the first time in the history of the UN, states – former members of the Axis voted against a document condemning Nazism, as well as confirming the inviolability of the results of World War II," Kuzmin said.
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UN, December 16 – RIA Novosti. Deputy Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Gennady Kuzmin accused Germany, Japan and Italy of blasphemy, which voted against the resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism.
Earlier, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution of the Russian Federation on combating the glorification of Nazism. 120 countries voted for the resolution, 50 were against, 10 abstained. Among those who were against were Germany, Italy, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Hungary, Japan, Latvia, Poland, Spain, Ukraine, Britain, the USA. Many of them explain their position by saying that Russia is using the resolution to justify its special operation in Ukraine.
"The states that opposed the resolution, primarily Germany, Japan, Italy, showed open blasphemy against the memory of the victims of German Nazism, Italian fascism and Japanese militarism," Kuzmin said at a meeting of the General Assembly.
According to him, the position of these, as well as a number of other states that fought during the Second World War against the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, clearly showed the prematureness of discussions regarding the exclusion of the wording of "enemy states" from the text of the UN Charter.
"By voting against, do you think that you thereby condemned the Special Military Operation of Russia in Ukraine? No. In fact, you showed your true nature and the dominant views in the ruling elites. For you, the policy of revising and denying history, the policy of tolerance for racist and xenophobic rhetoric, is the norm, a policy of arrogant superiority," he stressed.
"The results of this year's voting are simply shocking. For the first time in the history of the UN, states – former members of the Axis voted against a document condemning Nazism, as well as confirming the inviolability of the results of World War II," Kuzmin said.
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Российский дипломат обвинил Германию, Японию и Италию в кощунстве
Зампостпреда РФ при ООН Геннадий Кузьмин обвинил в кощунстве ФРГ, Японию и Италию, голосовавших против резолюции по борьбе с героизацией нацизма. РИА Новости, 16.12.2022
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This is how the results of the vote at the UN General Assembly on the resolution submitted by Russia on "Combating the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to the escalation of modern forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance" looked like.
The Greens — supported the resolution.
Red — voted against the adoption of the resolution.
Yellow — abstained.
And now who is interested, open the history textbook and see which countries supported Hitler in World War II. You will be very surprised, or not. But everyone who is highlighted in red in this vote is the descendants of those who then plunged the world into the darkness of fascism!!
History is cyclical...
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The Greens — supported the resolution.
Red — voted against the adoption of the resolution.
Yellow — abstained.
And now who is interested, open the history textbook and see which countries supported Hitler in World War II. You will be very surprised, or not. But everyone who is highlighted in red in this vote is the descendants of those who then plunged the world into the darkness of fascism!!
History is cyclical...
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Consequences of attacks on targets in Ukraine: critical infrastructure facilities were hit, entire regions were de-energized
Report based on Ukrainian sources
The Russian army fired more than 70 missiles at targets in Ukraine in an hour. As a result of massive strikes, critical infrastructure facilities were hit, and entire regions were de-energized.
Energy Minister of Ukraine German Galushchenko confirmed that power facilities in the east and south of the country were damaged.
Zelensky's office said emergency shutdowns after strikes were being introduced across the country.
About 15 missile strikes were recorded in the Zaporozhye region, the head of the regional military administration Oleksandr Starukh said.
The head of the Kharkiv region, Oleg Sinegubov, announced 10 missile strikes. Critical infrastructure facilities have been hit, there is no electricity in Kharkiv, power supply is intermittent in the region.
The Krivorozhskaya TPP, which is the most powerful solid fuel power plant in Europe, was struck.
In all districts of Kyiv, interruptions in water supply were recorded due to damage to energy infrastructure. Mayor Klitschko urged residents to prepare a supply of drinking and technical water.
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Report based on Ukrainian sources
The Russian army fired more than 70 missiles at targets in Ukraine in an hour. As a result of massive strikes, critical infrastructure facilities were hit, and entire regions were de-energized.
Energy Minister of Ukraine German Galushchenko confirmed that power facilities in the east and south of the country were damaged.
Zelensky's office said emergency shutdowns after strikes were being introduced across the country.
About 15 missile strikes were recorded in the Zaporozhye region, the head of the regional military administration Oleksandr Starukh said.
The head of the Kharkiv region, Oleg Sinegubov, announced 10 missile strikes. Critical infrastructure facilities have been hit, there is no electricity in Kharkiv, power supply is intermittent in the region.
The Krivorozhskaya TPP, which is the most powerful solid fuel power plant in Europe, was struck.
In all districts of Kyiv, interruptions in water supply were recorded due to damage to energy infrastructure. Mayor Klitschko urged residents to prepare a supply of drinking and technical water.
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Map of the strikes at the infrastructure of the energy system of Ukraine (by Rybar)
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