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Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24

The link between serving in Syria and war crimes in Ukraine.

There were perhaps 60 soldiers at the Motyzhyn site, scattered in dugouts with officers in a house across a small lake. Not all were Syria veterans: there were also regular recruits – so fresh from Russia they didn’t realise for two weeks they were in Ukraine – who had to cook for the commanders and carry water, and who were apparently horrified by what they saw.

In a bid, perhaps, to salvage their own humanity, they rescued Bondarenko, 48 hours into his ordeal. While the torturers were drunk, the recruits dragged him out and carried him to a room used as a prison at the back of the house. They warned him to stay quiet and cover his face, because the commanders would assume he had joined others in the mass grave if they noticed he was missing at all, but if they found him they would certainly kill him.

Two days later, the same recruits unlocked the door, said the Russians were leaving and warned the two men inside not to come out for two hours because of the risk from lingering snipers.

“They asked me to pray for them,” Bondarenko said. “These guys didn’t want any of this; they were in shock themselves, and to this day I pray for them. They saved my life.”
 
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A law professor at St Petersburg University who fired this twitter poster for anti war views has written a terrible poem (it rhymes in Russian but not in English)

Letter Z

Hey, enemies of Russia, tremble in fear,
A new letter in the alphabet has appeared!
This new letter has raised us all higher,
For freedom, for goodness, for love, for the Motherland!
And the Latin alphabet will soon move
Because it's very crowded for her - the Cyrillic alphabet has grown
Our hearts skip a beat in our chest
How many new letters wait for us ahead?
 
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A law professor at St Petersburg University who fired this twitter poster for anti war views has written a terrible poem (it rhymes in Russian but not in English)

Letter Z

Hey, enemies of Russia, tremble in fear,
A new letter in the alphabet has appeared!
This new letter has raised us all higher,
For freedom, for goodness, for love, for the Motherland!
And the Latin alphabet will soon move
Because it's very crowded for her - the Cyrillic alphabet has grown
Our hearts skip a beat in our chest
How many new letters wait for us ahead?

V is for Vogon.
 
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A law professor at St Petersburg University who fired this twitter poster for anti war views has written a terrible poem (it rhymes in Russian but not in English)

Letter Z

Hey, enemies of Russia, tremble in fear,
A new letter in the alphabet has appeared!
This new letter has raised us all higher,
For freedom, for goodness, for love, for the Motherland!
And the Latin alphabet will soon move
Because it's very crowded for her - the Cyrillic alphabet has grown
Our hearts skip a beat in our chest
How many new letters wait for us ahead?

About 23,000 letters (by the Ukrainian count) should have arrived by now and none of them good news
 

A gay Ukrainian student talks about how homophobia has increased in Ukrainian society since the war started, and the danger his family are in from Russian forces
 
A gentle look at a specific example of morale-boosting propaganda, featuring stuff that was always obviously fantasy but that some prefer to take literally:


Would be nice if they got the absolute basic stuff correct though:

“an incredible feat in an arena where Russia controls the skies”
 
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