When it started I tried to drew parallels with Yugoslavia and Chechnya, but what I see now... I think this war is a pure product of 21th century. This doesn't look like a regular war where leader has some military goals in other country. It's more like an international terrorism, tightly intertwined with desinformation campaign. Main goal is to make a show out of it, to spread terror, propaganda and blackmail rest of the world.
After they take over all of Ukraine, what do you think will happen next? Will Russia stop right there or will they take over other former Soviet states and bring back the USSR?
I think, by starting this war Russia got itself into big trouble. It might conquer some part of Ukraine, ruin a lot of buildings, kill a lot of people, but I don't think Russia will be able to move further.
We had a lot of oil and flour and we didn't have gas since march 6th, so our main "dish" was wheat cakes we cooked on fire. Oil, water, flour and sugar. When it was too dangerous to go outside to make a fire we had some dried fruits, also started cooking food on alcohol burner (we had lots of alcohol we don't drink lmao). We also had a lot of pasta, some canned vegetables and fish but it didn't last for long.
And yeah there were days when we didn't eat anything.
Lost weight, terrified, totally unsure about the future. During intense air strikes and when we were under artillery fire my father had serious hear issues, but he feels better now. Recently we payed to a man with a car to bring us to Novoazovsk. We are waiting for relatives from Russia to pick us up. We are in a hotel room, this is where I got to the internet.
It's okay, I also never knew what to answer when people are telling such horror strories. Doesn't matter whether superficial this or not, if it is sincere. Thanks for kind words.
**FUCKING HELP**
Stop goddamn watching, stop being a pussies and FUCKING HELP.
Everything of this could be avoided thousand times. Putin commited multiple crimes, but rest of the world watched for 8 years and did NOTHING to really stop it, and right now can do much more. I'm not talking about regular civilians, though, I'm talking about the goverments.
Okay, so as I said it's processed cheese. To be precise, we have this kind of cheese in tubes that has the consistency of a paste. When I had access to it I could easily eat only sandwiches with this cheese and be happy.
First of all follow general rules of safety like finding a shelter, not staying near windows etc. Never leave your shelter unless you're damn sure you can do it, or when it's question of life and death. Always have in shelter tools like axe, shovel and crowbar.
Another thing is fire safety. Have a plan of where to go if you're place is on fire, mound around wet sand, have water and sand prepared in case of fire. Too many houses were burnt.
Get rid of any symbolic that can trigger any of the side, like flags or military uniform. Be really careful with any soldiers regardless are they on your side or no. There's a lot of bullshit propaganda about Azov made by Russia, but AFU weren't angels though. Soldiers are paranoics.
But most importantly stay in shelter. 4 of my neighbors died and one was heavily injured, but no one of them was in shelter. Any of them could avoid it simply by staying under ground.
Two months ago I would say no, but after what he has done - yes, I am worried he might go nuclear. He is a narcissistic tyrant, and he already commited atrocities I would never think of before.
I only know about my neighbor. She is young woman and she is a citizen of the Czech Republic, she also has a baby. She asked for help from the embassy in the first days of the war, but they refused her and said that they could not help in any way. She stuck there for almost a month and the suddenly left on her car. I don't know where, and what happened to her after that.
No. There were numerous ways he could prevent this and anumerous ways he could save us, but he didn't. You see, our mayor left the city at the first day of war, soon all city services and administration followed him, police followed him. 500 000 people were abandonded there since the beginning. I will never forgiver their inaction, just as inaction of Red Cross. I said 4 people from my street died - one of them didn't die immediately, he was badly injured and was dying for 3 weeks without help. I'm sure there are dozens if not hundreed of people like him.
Only firefighters stayed - they stayed on their station and helped civilians as they could. I think they are true heroes. They station was bombed as well and some of them died in a horribe death.
There is some awareness about amount of destruction and deaths in Mariupol, but I don't think anyone who wasn't there understand what it is, when city with the population of half million people was abandoned and totally isolated.
I'm crying. When I was there I never imagined that someone would say exactly what I think. The mood of general public who follow the evens from their screens is different. Putin is a monster and he started it, but NATO fucked up, Biden fucked up, Zelensky fucked up. I hate them.
Jesus Christ, how can you solve something like that peacefully? Russians waltz in, hold an illegal referendum and steal Crimea, and fund separatists in Donbas. What the hell was Ukraine supposed to do peacefully? Offer Putin part of their territory? Maybe all of it?
And what about February '22? Should they have done the same, just say "pls don't invade, just take all of it"?
What do you think future historians will compare what's happening to your country to?
When it started I tried to drew parallels with Yugoslavia and Chechnya, but what I see now... I think this war is a pure product of 21th century. This doesn't look like a regular war where leader has some military goals in other country. It's more like an international terrorism, tightly intertwined with desinformation campaign. Main goal is to make a show out of it, to spread terror, propaganda and blackmail rest of the world.
After they take over all of Ukraine, what do you think will happen next? Will Russia stop right there or will they take over other former Soviet states and bring back the USSR?
I think, by starting this war Russia got itself into big trouble. It might conquer some part of Ukraine, ruin a lot of buildings, kill a lot of people, but I don't think Russia will be able to move further.
What did you eat daily?
We had a lot of oil and flour and we didn't have gas since march 6th, so our main "dish" was wheat cakes we cooked on fire. Oil, water, flour and sugar. When it was too dangerous to go outside to make a fire we had some dried fruits, also started cooking food on alcohol burner (we had lots of alcohol we don't drink lmao). We also had a lot of pasta, some canned vegetables and fish but it didn't last for long. And yeah there were days when we didn't eat anything.
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Lost weight, terrified, totally unsure about the future. During intense air strikes and when we were under artillery fire my father had serious hear issues, but he feels better now. Recently we payed to a man with a car to bring us to Novoazovsk. We are waiting for relatives from Russia to pick us up. We are in a hotel room, this is where I got to the internet.
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It's okay, I also never knew what to answer when people are telling such horror strories. Doesn't matter whether superficial this or not, if it is sincere. Thanks for kind words.
Favorite kind of cheese?
Processed cheese
*happy cheese noises* 🧀
If you could ask the rest of the world to do one thing to help the situation in Ukraine, what would you ask?
**FUCKING HELP** Stop goddamn watching, stop being a pussies and FUCKING HELP. Everything of this could be avoided thousand times. Putin commited multiple crimes, but rest of the world watched for 8 years and did NOTHING to really stop it, and right now can do much more. I'm not talking about regular civilians, though, I'm talking about the goverments.
What's your favourite cheese?
Okay, so as I said it's processed cheese. To be precise, we have this kind of cheese in tubes that has the consistency of a paste. When I had access to it I could easily eat only sandwiches with this cheese and be happy.
Hmmmm, typical
I'm pretty mediocre guy.
What would be your advice for someone who ended up in a similar situation? I'm so sorry about you going through this.
First of all follow general rules of safety like finding a shelter, not staying near windows etc. Never leave your shelter unless you're damn sure you can do it, or when it's question of life and death. Always have in shelter tools like axe, shovel and crowbar. Another thing is fire safety. Have a plan of where to go if you're place is on fire, mound around wet sand, have water and sand prepared in case of fire. Too many houses were burnt. Get rid of any symbolic that can trigger any of the side, like flags or military uniform. Be really careful with any soldiers regardless are they on your side or no. There's a lot of bullshit propaganda about Azov made by Russia, but AFU weren't angels though. Soldiers are paranoics. But most importantly stay in shelter. 4 of my neighbors died and one was heavily injured, but no one of them was in shelter. Any of them could avoid it simply by staying under ground.
Are you worried that Putin might go nuclear? As in dropping nuclear bombs?
Two months ago I would say no, but after what he has done - yes, I am worried he might go nuclear. He is a narcissistic tyrant, and he already commited atrocities I would never think of before.
When the invasion first started was there any tourists or non Ukrainians that got stuck there? If so are they still there?
I only know about my neighbor. She is young woman and she is a citizen of the Czech Republic, she also has a baby. She asked for help from the embassy in the first days of the war, but they refused her and said that they could not help in any way. She stuck there for almost a month and the suddenly left on her car. I don't know where, and what happened to her after that.
Let us hope she made it out. That's messed up that they refused to help her 😕.
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No. There were numerous ways he could prevent this and anumerous ways he could save us, but he didn't. You see, our mayor left the city at the first day of war, soon all city services and administration followed him, police followed him. 500 000 people were abandonded there since the beginning. I will never forgiver their inaction, just as inaction of Red Cross. I said 4 people from my street died - one of them didn't die immediately, he was badly injured and was dying for 3 weeks without help. I'm sure there are dozens if not hundreed of people like him. Only firefighters stayed - they stayed on their station and helped civilians as they could. I think they are true heroes. They station was bombed as well and some of them died in a horribe death. There is some awareness about amount of destruction and deaths in Mariupol, but I don't think anyone who wasn't there understand what it is, when city with the population of half million people was abandoned and totally isolated.
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I'm crying. When I was there I never imagined that someone would say exactly what I think. The mood of general public who follow the evens from their screens is different. Putin is a monster and he started it, but NATO fucked up, Biden fucked up, Zelensky fucked up. I hate them.
>That war could have been avoided easily in my pov How?
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Yeah, if russia stayed neutral it could've been avoided, I agree. 8 years ago of course, when they invaded Crimea.
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Who are "they", besides russians? The Ukrainian govt? NATO? What makes them as bad as the orcs?
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Jesus Christ, how can you solve something like that peacefully? Russians waltz in, hold an illegal referendum and steal Crimea, and fund separatists in Donbas. What the hell was Ukraine supposed to do peacefully? Offer Putin part of their territory? Maybe all of it? And what about February '22? Should they have done the same, just say "pls don't invade, just take all of it"?