They start with an instant awakening - whether from a siren, or from the rumble of an airplane outside the window, or from any other suspicious sound. Then watching or reading the news. At the beginning of the war, I tried to analyze the events, to reassure myself with something, to try to guess what would happen next. Now I'm afraid to do it. It seems to me that the most painful and terrifying of my conjectures can come true (at least this has happened in the last 2 weeks). So I try not to think ahead.
Now many people are talking about the threat of a chemical attack. The russian army is too weak for a direct confrontation with the Ukrainian army, so they use terror. They intimidate and execute people in the temporarily occupied territories, drop rockets and bombs on the civilian population (including the most vulnerable, such as maternity hospitals and children's hospitals, nursing homes and psychiatric clinics, boarding schools and orphanages). They seize nuclear power plants (Zaporizhzhia Power Plant, Chernobyl) for nuclear blackmail, neglecting all safety rules at these facilities.
PHOTO CREDIT - State Emergency Service in Dnipro (DSNS).
Now they're talking about the possible use of chemical weapons in connection with the fact that in Ukraine allegedly "there are biochemical laboratories" in which "biological weapons are being developed." How much nonsense I have heard over the past few hours from the russian propaganda machine: it turns out that we also invented the coronavirus, and we also want to invent (or have already invented) biological weapons aimed at a specific ethnic group (guess which one).
I think the russians take on too much. Here, no one wanted to attack them, here no one even wanted to think about them. If there were some kind of iron sarcophagus over russia, from under which not a single sound would come, it would be much easier for Ukraine to live, no one would touch them. It just stinks.
Their demands seem ridiculous to any sane person in Ukraine. Meanwhile, they are actively telling their stupid, narrow-minded citizens that they are "liberators", "peacemakers" and "fighters against neo-Nazism" here. Today they dropped a bomb on Dnipro, this is my native region, which I know very well. This is a city of young, progressive people, most of whom speak russian (!) and have been accepting refugees from ORDLO (Luhansk and Donetsk TOTs) with compassion for the past 8 years. Neo-Nazis? It's ridiculous!
