Commentary by Russian blogger Donetsk
I have noticed a recent uptick of Ukrainian artillery strikes in civilians areas in Donetsk, where civilians have traditionally fared the worst.
[DonRF] Donetsk is again suffering from fire, it is unlikely to be quiet at night. 91 dead in a week in the DPR. Nearly 400 wounded. All of these are civilians. Reports are dreary, personal contacts too. Everything froze in some kind of balance, and it is absolutely incomprehensible where it will stagger.
Not fun. Some are looking for zradu, others are looking for peremoga, others want socialism, others want the scoop out of themselves... And Donbass suffers in silence when it flies in packets, then there is no time for geonanopolitics. Although they also whisper ... about different things. It is hard for people to believe that on the 102nd day it is exactly so. It is even more difficult to live in this understanding that it is for a long time.
The logic of war is no victories and morale is falling. The fictitious ones come in the first month, then all these multi-move ones become boring. And there is nothing to do, everything continues. The process has begun, and now it is up to the end. It's like in flight - I burned 51% of the fuel and there's no way back. Only forward to the end. Both for them and for us. They just do not have a way back, because only a resounding victory will close the hell that will emerge after. After all, they will tear their own if there is peace. All this dope will go away, the facts will remain.
Exactly like ours. There are a lot of bugs that need to be changed. Donbass will be restored later. From the ruins And you can't resurrect people. So, again, just go ahead, there is no choice. And this is an axiom. Russian ultra-patriots can pose as much as they want - we are protecting you, no guys, you are protecting yourself. We are a played card, they are coming after you.
And it's time to forget the great-power show-offs, the 102nd day has gone. Yes, and ours need less to yell about "betrayed", "set up" and the like. They did not betray, they just could. Yes, and now what? In Ukraine? Good luck, you can survive the artillery raid, there is no castration with further extraction of the eye with a knife. And it will be so. We are not human to them.
No one has a choice, that's the point. And I personally do not call for anything, everyone understands everything. Well, except for half a percent of the stubborn in the Russian Federation and here, who believe in the rape of pregnant boys in panties and self-attacks. But those bullets will fix them. Ukrainian. And that's if we lose.
It is unlikely. Very unlikely. The question is just the speed of buildup and the price of victory. Not in counter-battery shooting, Soviet artillery systems are shit, men who at least know how to shoot even more, not in ammunition, can buy small UAVs of the Russian Federation as much as needed in a week, the question is how soon all this will be organized, but pique vests:
It was even funnier. In December 2016, his boss calls me. The man had been engaged in the Ukrainian direction for almost three years (!!!) by that time. Further our dialogue:
He: Listen, we have a meeting now, tell me, is Zhitomir ours or not ours?
Me: What do you mean? (I go nuts from the very formulation of the question, which speaks of the complete incompetence of a person as a specialist)
He: Well, Bandera or not?
This is where I blew up, of course.
Me: Well, you're just a sheep, or what? Zhytomyr is a big city. There are ours, there are not ours, there are Bandera, communists, Jews, Seventh-day Adventists, bikers, chess players and ten thousand more social groups. How do they feel about Moscow? Yes, whatever! Someone supports completely, someone with reservations, someone is simply against it, someone is against it, but there is a nuance, someone doesn’t care at all ... and so on !! How can a whole city be recorded as ours or not ours, what kind of question is this? Is Moscow ours or not? There are twenty million people here and everyone has their own opinion! ..
He, interrupting: I see, I understand. In short, not Bandera, right?
I hung up.
These people sat in the Ukrainian direction until 2018, until they were kicked out in the ass. Responsibility for the difficulties in conducting SVO now lies, among other things, on their shoulders. Of course, none of them will answer for the failures, it is not customary here.
But conclusions must be drawn. Those who understand it should be responsible for the direction. This is not self-advertising (God forbid, I'm a private person and I'm not going anywhere), it's just a statement of fact.
Reading that which you won’t understand who is dumber - current or applicants, but you tend to believe that the connoisseur of nominal LNG and weighing pistols on market scales is all the same, because he is hungry, greedy and unprincipled, they will be removed. We don’t have the Hindenburgs, it’s bad with the Bismarcks, but there are people.
And at the top as well. Russia has such a karma - slowly and not ready. This time Donbass pays. The strategists worked out at night, it didn’t help the Ukrainians to see the realization, which means that this night will be difficult. I hope that for them, since there is nothing to cover us with.
Such are the unfortunate thoughts. Why should they be funny? People are dying, property is burning, everything is slow and alternatively brilliant. And what to do? It's good to be Russian, but it's hard.