April 19th 2024 Yuriy reveals the harsh reality of war in Ukraine, highlighting the grim consequences of every dollar that can buy bullets to kill Ukrainians, emphasizing the urgent need to strip Russia of its means for war. You can email Yuriy, ask him questions or simply send him a message of support: [email protected]   You can help Yuriy and his family by donating to his GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-yuriys-family  Yuriy’s Podbean Patron sign-up to give once or regularly: https://patron.podbean.com/yuriy   Buy Yuriy a coffee here: https://bmc.link/yuriymat  ----more---- TRANSCRIPT: (Apple Podcasts & Podbean app users can enjoy accurate closed captions)   It is April 19.  One bullet for Kalashnikov costs about 50 cents. You can buy two bullets for a dollar, theoretically, with two lives. $1 equals minus two lives. It's simple math. It can't get any simpler. The point of sanctions imposed against Russia is precisely to leave Russians with as little money as possible, so we don't have the means repair weapons, build tanks, or buy bullets.  When the so-called Russian opposition starts complaining that the average people are suffering because of the sanctions, and that's why they should be lifted, they are playing into the kremlin's hands. You can't take money only from the state and leave the money for the people. That's not how it works. The state's money is the taxes people pay and the less money they have, the fewer taxes they pay, and the less where state can buy tanks and bullets. Those who call for the lifting or easing of sanctions are either fools who don't understand whether state's money comes from or they're working for Putin, pretending to be his enemies.  Russians who fled to the West, love to talk about how Russian people are not to blame for the war, how people don't support the occupation of Ukrainian lands and the killing of Ukrainians, but they are lying. Just read what Russians writes about the war- by the way, I've counted about  30 insulting names for Ukrainians. With this supposedly entire war, people have come up with. Just watch videos from the first days of a full scale invasion when thousands of people in Russia, were celebrating. They were genuinely celebrating dancing on the streets, having picnics near the border with Ukraine to see missiles flying towards our cities, and they were very, very happy about each of these missiles.  The so-called Russian opposition is a bunch of fools Putin's agents and people living in a fantasy world where the war can end without Putin's defeat, without destroying his army and without returning the occupied territories. Let me remind you once again that for a dollar you can buy two bullets for an AK that can kill two Ukrainians, and we need to make sure that Russia does not have that dollar so it cannot even buy war to bullets, because if Russia has even one less dollar, it'll spend it not on bread for the old person, not on the school notebook for a child, but on war. Because killing the Ukrainians rather than caring for its citizens, it's the only purpose of Russia's existence now. There's nothing else.

April 16th 2024 Tasked with writing for an American media outlet, Yuriy delves into the complex ties between Ukrainians and the Russian opposition during the ongoing conflict, aiming to shed light on the nuanced perceptions in a turbulent landscape. You can email Yuriy, ask him questions or simply send him a message of support: [email protected]   You can help Yuriy and his family by donating to his GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-yuriys-family  Yuriy’s Podbean Patron sign-up to give once or regularly: https://patron.podbean.com/yuriy   Buy Yuriy a coffee here: https://bmc.link/yuriymat  ----more---- TRANSCRIPT: (Apple Podcasts & Podbean app users can enjoy accurate closed captions)   It is April 16.  A couple of weeks ago a major American media outlet- one that is truly democratic and reputable- asked me to write an article about how Ukrainians perceive the Russian opposition now and how much this opposition can help Ukrainians in their fight against the aggressor. I gladly accepted the task. I wrote about how out of tens of millions of Russians, only a few stood against the first stage of the war, the annexation of Crimea in 2014. The vast majority, including those now considered opposition figures were not opposed to the occupation of part of another country.  I wrote that most of most Russians who now live peacefully abroad and talk about suffering under Putin's regime lived comfortably in Russia when, starting from 2014, this regime was killing Ukrainians daily in Donbas and was almost openly preparing to occupy the entire Ukraine. These people fled Russia only when Putin announced mobilization and they faced the risk of becoming cannon fodder in this war. Before that, they were not particularly concerned about the war.  I wrote about how the luminaries of Russian culture- contemporary writers, poets, composers -who fled to the West and supposedly opposed Putin have still not determined their position on the war. They even dare to publicly declare that they are not ready to support the Ukrainian army. In other words, they still cannot fully understand that supporting the Ukrainian army is a truly noble cause, that this army is the only force that is currently saving Europe from the genocidal horde of Russian military criminals.  I wrote all this, sent it to the editorial office, and the editor, who was supposed to publish this text, replied to me. She said she was expecting a completely different text, that she needed a text about how Ukrainians see Russians as friends, that the war is all about Putin and maybe a few people around him.  According to the editor, it would be painful and uncomfortable to the readers of her outlet to read about how even opposition Russians are perceived by Ukrainians as enemies. She is convinced that what is happening in Russia now is something unusual, some deviation, that Russians are actually against war and killings, against occupation and concentration camps and she expected me to write exactly about it.  But such a text would be a science fiction, moreover less scientific and more fictional. You can't live in illusions in the third year of the war, thinking that only Putin wants this war. That Russians are his hostages who are simply forced to kill, rape, loot and destroy entire cities against their will. There are no two Russias, bad and good, there is only one, which lives by war, dreams of destroying Ukraine and is committing genocide against an entire nation. And even if you don't read about it in a reputable liberal outlet, it does not change the situation. Ignoring the problem does not solve it; it only makes it worse.

April 12th 2024 Yuriy shares the importance of carrying Ukrainian flags with him wherever he goes, spreading hope and unity in the midst of chaos and destruction. You can email Yuriy, ask him questions or simply send him a message of support: [email protected]   You can help Yuriy and his family by donating to his GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-yuriys-family  Yuriy’s Podbean Patron sign-up to give once or regularly: https://patron.podbean.com/yuriy   Buy Yuriy a coffee here: https://bmc.link/yuriymat  ----more---- TRANSCRIPT: (Apple Podcasts & Podbean app users can enjoy accurate closed captions)   It's April 12,  Friends, I'm very grateful to you for your help. You can't even imagine how important it is. Thanks to you, I have opportunity sometimes to forget about our constant horror, to distract myself from the war. Without your help, I could not buy books for my daughter, which she needs for studying, set aside money for a trip to see my parents, whom I still dream of seeing alive, support my family, and not fall into complete despair. All this is possible because of you. If I could, I would hug each and everyone of you tightly.  I want to tell you about one thing that I always carry with me. Of course, I always have my gear, combat boots, body armor and weapons. And also a first aid kit, power banks, and e-reader. But that's not all. I always carry a Ukrainian flag with me. It's always in my bag. And not just one. I try to have several. From time to time, I replenish my supply of flags, which quickly run out.  They run out because I give them away. I give them to soldiers who have moved to new positions, leaving their flags behind at the old ones. I give them to civilians in liberated territories where the Russians have destroyed everything even remotely connected to Ukraine. I once gave a flag to an old woman in a liberated village. When the Russians came, she took down her flag, which had been flying over her house, wrapped it in a plastic bag and buried it somewhere in her garden. She didn't want the occupiers to destroy it. And then she forgot where she buried it, so she took mine, but she promised to give it back to me as soon as she found hers. She's a wonderful person. I hope she's doing well.  Children in frontline cities also eagerly take the flags. They wave them when convoys of military vehicles pass by their cities on their way to the front, when helicopters fly over their homes, when funeral processions with a coffin or those killed by occupiers, pass through where streets. Maybe some over flags are distributed are now flying over the cemeteries. I've already told you about the tradition of placing flags over the graves of fallen soldiers. So our flags are important both for living and for the dead.  That's why they run out so quickly and need to be bought again. Such a simple flag- blue on top and yellow on the bottom- but it contains so much meaning, so much sense. Now, it's a true symbol of a free world, of freedom itself, and I'm happy and proud to give my flags to people. For me, it's an honor to be one who can share such an important symbol. By the way, I share this honor with you. Because I replenish my stock of flags thanks to your help too. So, thank you once again.

April 10th 2024 In one of his many roles in the army, Yuriy has become a documentary a military filmmaker, documenting the challenges of filming a documentary about a fallen young soldier amidst the destruction and despair of war in Ukraine.  You can email Yuriy, ask him questions or simply send him a message of support: [email protected]   You can help Yuriy and his family by donating to his GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-yuriys-family  Yuriy’s Podbean Patron sign-up to give once or regularly: https://patron.podbean.com/yuriy   Buy Yuriy a coffee here: https://bmc.link/yuriymat  ----more---- TRANSCRIPT: (Apple Podcasts & Podbean app users can enjoy accurate closed captions)   It's April 10.  Right now I have a pretty strange specialty. I'm a military filmmaker. I shoot and edit a documentary about a fallen young soldier. When I was working in television before joining the Army, I saw how many people typically worked on documentaries. There was always a producer, director, editor, several cameramen, a sound person, composer, location scouts and character scouts. Usually it's a whole team of 15 to 20 people.  We are doing it as a team of two. I'm the director, cameraman, sound guy; I wrote most of the script and even became one of the characters in this film. It's likely that I'll have to compose some of the music for the future film too. Honestly- I'm already prepared for that. I have never made a real film before, and now I am. And it's something I'm not ashamed of. I did not know how to edit videos before the Army, but now I'm helping other people with it. So I think I will manage with music somehow.  But what I can't manage with is depression. I thought shooting would distract me from dark thoughts, but I could focus on the film and forget about the constant nightmare around me for a while. But it does not work like that. We arrived to shoot in my hometown of Kharkiv, just when the Russians decided to completely destroy it and began bombing it with double hatred. It's very hard to watch the enemy destroy a city that is dear to you.  And the story of a person we are filming about isn't cheerful either. The guy was 35 when he died. He was a volunteer living behind a wife and two children. He was a person living his life, raising children, being happy, and then -bam- his gone, children are orphans, the wife is a widow, their world is gone, a void in its place. And that's just one story, one family. There are thousands of such stories, such families, endless thousands and there will be even more. Every day of the war, it's a few dozen, maybe even hundreds of obituaries, dozens of hundreds of shattered worlds, orphaned families, and endless pain.  And it's very hard to come to terms with effect that this will go on for years. That the war will continue for a very long time, that it will take countless lives, destroy new cities, leave behind many more scars. It's for years, for long years. I'll have time to shoot a movie, return to the trenches, serve in the trenches for as long as my health allows, and the war will still go on. And people will die every day. Every.  Perhaps it's because of this depression, that I'm recording new episodes much less frequently than before. Or maybe it's because I feel that listeners are losing interest in the podcast. Maybe it's just my imagination that they are tired of me, but I see that the last time help came to my go fund me was a month ago, and since when nothing, I'll try to put myself together and start recording more often again. But please don't forget about me either.

April 2nd 2024 Yuriy delves into the historical context of Ukraine's struggle for freedom and emphasizes the human cost of political decisions. He also advocates for standing against tyranny and supporting conscious democratic principles. You can email Yuriy, ask him questions or simply send him a message of support: [email protected]   You can help Yuriy and his family by donating to his GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-yuriys-family  Yuriy’s Podbean Patron sign-up to give once or regularly: https://patron.podbean.com/yuriy   Buy Yuriy a coffee here: https://bmc.link/yuriymat  ----more---- TRANSCRIPT: (Apple Podcasts & Podbean app users can enjoy accurate closed captions)   It is April 2nd.  The world fears Ukraine because it doesn't fully understand who we are. Due to this lack of understanding, during the collapse of USSR, US President George Bush Senior flew to Kyiv to persuade Ukrainians not to attempt to create an independent country, to remain subordinate. To Moscow to agree to the continuation of occupation. In 1994, the US, UK and Russia persuaded Ukraine to give up all its nuclear weapons. By the way, it was the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world. In exchange Ukraine was promised respect for its serenity and inviolability of its borders. And you know what this guarantor countries should do? If someone threatens this inviolability and serenity? They should hold consultations. Consultations, damn it. And when one of guarantor countries went to war against Ukraine 10 years ago, the other two started consultations. And we've been consulting for 10 years. While people are being killed and tortured while cities are being bombed.  The world fears Ukraine's victory because it does not know what will happen with Russia after this victory. Maybe it'll disintegrate into dozens of states, each of which will receive part of a nuclear weapons arsenal. Maybe a new Putin will come- more insane and anti-Western than the one we have now. They've already gotten used to this; they continue doing business as usual with him. The west seems to think we can still find a compromise with him.  The ancestors of war who seek compromise with Putin, I'm sure are crying bitter tears in the after life because way too could have compromised with Hitler, with Hirohito, not die somewhere on Guadalcanal, not drawn off Omaha Beach but just come to an agreement. But they did not agree to that. Not because they weren't afraid- I'm sure we were scared to death- but because there are things you have to do even when your hands are shaken with fear.  And they overcame their fear and did what they still grateful for, and will be grateful for the centuries- they defended freedom, destroyed tyrants, and gave hope for the future. Their descendants are now carefully counting the bullets they sent to Ukraine to make sure there won't be enough to destroy the entire Russian army, so that 100% won't pose a threat to Putin's regime. They belittle the memory of those who fought against evil, those who did not compromise, those who knew the price of freedom. And this price is not measured in dollars per gallon of gasoline, not in Euros per cubic meter of gas. It is measured in human lives.  And anyone who says it's better to compromise with Putin so that gasoline and gas prices don't rise, so that business can continue as usual is actually saying "let the Russians kill and torture Ukrainians, as long as I have money." Such a person is a criminal and accomplice of occupiers and enemy of freedom. The world must stop seeking understanding with Putin and start seeking understanding with conscious and democratic principles. And they both say the same thing. Death to tyrants.

March 27th 2024 Yuriy delivers a raw and intense account of Putin's relentless addiction to war, showcasing the lengths he is willing to go to fuel hatred and violence. He sheds light on the destructive path of a leader consumed by power and dominance, painting a grim picture of the consequences faced by nations caught in his path. You can email Yuriy, ask him questions or simply send him a message of support: [email protected]   You can help Yuriy and his family by donating to his GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-yuriys-family  Yuriy’s Podbean Patron sign-up to give once or regularly: https://patron.podbean.com/yuriy   Buy Yuriy a coffee here: https://bmc.link/yuriymat  ----more---- TRANSCRIPT: (Apple Podcasts & Podbean app users can enjoy accurate closed captions)   It is March 27th.   About 150 Russians died after a terrorist attack, most likely orchestrated by Isis. In Moscow, however, the Russian authorities stab link the attack to Ukraine, even directly blaming Ukrainians for deaths of Russians. Do you know why this is happening? Why do we insist on a nonsensical version of Ukrainian involvement? Because they care about nothing more than fueling hatred towards Ukraine among Russians. Putin and his cronies will dance on the corpses of their compratiots, spit on them, do anything if it serves to stoke hatred towards Ukraine.   Russia is a rotten terrorist state led by true degenerates who don't give a shit about everyone and everything. They have stolen so many billions for themselves that they don't even know what else to desire; they've tried every drug in existence, every possible sexual perversion, nothing affects them anymore. Only war. It's Putin main drug, his main lover. If he needs to kill 20,000 Russians to take the ruins of a small village, he will do it. If he needs to take money from hospitals and schools and spend it on tanks and concentration camps, he will do it. If he needs to be a blunt, cynical scum bag who lies while standing on the bones of his citizens killed by isis, he will do it.  Junkie is not controlled by their head or heart. It's controlled by the dose and for it, it is willing to do anything. Putin is a vile junkie, completely dependent on war. And for it, he's ready to do anything. There is nothing he would not do no red lines he would not cross. Don't delude yourself into thinking, but he's only interested in Ukraine. He's interested in war; he's addicted to murder, torture, occupation, executions, and mass graves stretching to the horizon. If he can lie while standing on the graves of his own voters- he'll do anything in a heartbeat. After Bucha, after Mariupol, after thousands of abducted Ukrainian children, do you think he has anything he will stop at? I bet he won't. He will wage war as long as he's alive and free. And it could be decades. At some point, this stupid junkie will decide to increase the dose when the war against Ukraine alone no longer provides the usual high. And he will start bombing United States, Europe, Japan invading Germany, and avenging the French for what Napoleon did two centuries ago by burning Moscow. He's a stupid ruthless junkie, a miserable cretin who would be better off destroyed by the entire world now than to have this entire world later dragged into a war on terms of that junkie.

March 19th 2024 Yuriy describes a morning routine in Ukraine that's similar and also very different to how people in peaceful countries start their day. You can email Yuriy, ask him questions or simply send him a message of support: [email protected]   You can help Yuriy and his family by donating to his GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-yuriys-family  Yuriy’s Podbean Patron sign-up to give once or regularly: https://patron.podbean.com/yuriy   Buy Yuriy a coffee here: https://bmc.link/yuriymat  ----more---- TRANSCRIPT: (Podbean app users can enjoy closed captions)   It is 18th of March.  What does the morning of residents of peaceful countries begin with? I allow myself to assume that it starts with scrolling through the phone- news, weather notifications from friends and colleagues. In Ukraine, it's almost the same, but with specifics of war in country. The first thing we do is check which cities the Russians bombed last night, we message our friends and relatives there, asking if we need help, and we also have thousands of people who start each morning by checking Telegram channels of the occupiers where they boast about killing the Ukrainians.  There are dozens of such channels where they post photos and videos of the people they have killed and tortured. And those Ukrainians whose relatives have disappeared without a trace start their morning by checking these channels, carefully examining the photos of Ukrainians killed by the occupiers. Because among these victims there maybe their loved ones. I know a young woman whose husband was missing in action on the front lines and there was no information about him for several weeks. She search for him everywhere in hospitals, in lists of prisoners of war, but she found him on the one of these Terrible telegram channels.  The Russians simply killed him, it seems when he tried to surrender to them, they shot him after he had already laid down his arms, and then they posted photos of his dead body on the internet with dirty, racist comments and calls for killing of all Ukrainians. That's how his wife found out what happened to her husband. She unsubscribed from all these cannibalistic channels her mission to study their content ended as soon as she found a photo of her dead husband.   But you know what? Every day, hundreds of other Ukrainians whose loved ones have disappeared without a trace, subscribe to these channels. They flip through occupiers chats with horror in their hearts, carefully scrutinizing every blooded face of the people with Russians killed. In Ukraine, thousands of people are searching for their loved ones among the dead because they have lost hope of finding them among the living. I could once again remind you now what we would be far fewer dead, widow orphans, and parents who have lost children if they were given even a thousandth part of the weapons rusting in the warehouses of Western countries. But I won't- you know about it yourselves. You also know that only vile and amoral people build political careers on the bodies of Ukrainian defenders and the broken fates of their loved ones. We all know this, but knowing it changes nothing.

March 15th 2024 Yuriy reflects on his daughter's birthday celebration, concerns about the war, physical challenges, and the importance of fighting tyranny while young. You can email Yuriy, ask him questions or simply send him a message of support: [email protected]   You can help Yuriy and his family by donating to his GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-yuriys-family  Yuriy’s Podbean Patron sign-up to give once or regularly: https://patron.podbean.com/yuriy   Buy Yuriy a coffee here: https://bmc.link/yuriymat  ----more---- TRANSCRIPT: (Podbean app users can enjoy closed captions)   It's March 15.  Today is my daughter's birthday. She turned 19. It's a wonderful family celebration, which I will finally be able to celebrate at home. Although, I have some concerns because I'm currently at home. I have been transferred to Kyiv to serve in the public relations department of a Territorial Defense Forces. I'm once again hosting a radio program with same one I worked on before joining the military. But now, this program is entirely dedicated to the war. And I'm also filming and editing a movie about journalists who joined the army and perished. It's very challenging psychologically, but I'm gradually getting through it.  My anxiety is related to the fact that many of my friends are currently in the trenches in mortal danger, while I am in the relatively peaceful city of Kyiv. I understand that the war will last a long time, and what I will most likely find myself in the trenches again, right on the front lines, but I still have a sense that something is wrong with me. It's completely irrational, but it's unavoidable.  The only thing that causes me more harm than this feeling is the pain in my back. Two years of running in the bulletproof vest with heavy backpack take their toll. It's hard for me to walk, I struggle to get out of bed in the morning, and I am forced to constantly take painkillers. I am afraid to go to the doctor- what if they find something serious? So I just endure it for now. I want to be honest with you. It's better to fight tyrants when you are 20 to 25 years old, young and strong. After 40, it's much harder. Keep that in mind and do everything to ensure that when you get older, all the tyrants around are destroyed.  Let me tell you a bit more about the radio. It turns out that in these two years I've almost forgotten how to host programs. I forgot how to communicate with people who are not my comrades or superiors. Forgot many words that are irrelevant in the army, but are actually necessary during hosting a show. So now I'm hosting a program and I'm very nervous. I think the listeners can hear it, but I hope that with time I'll get back to normal, if I even remember what normal is.   I'm very grateful to all of you for staying with me all this time, supporting me, helping me, and my loved ones. Thanks to you I bought my daughter a gift, a wonderful big book about the history of car racing. It's her hobby- she knows everything about Formula One and other races. She wants to write about it when she finishes university and starts working as a journalist. It's a good dream. I really hope that by when we will indeed be more interested in the results of car races than in the number of casualties from another missile strike on our cities. God willing, it'll be so.

March 11th 2024 Amidst the bustling streets and apparent normalcy of Kyiv, Yuriy shares a harrowing tale from the heart of a city under siege. He notices a small, yet profound emblem of the war's devastating impact: a child's UNICEF backpack. This symbol of loss and distress, previously seen in the refugee camps of Iraq, now marks the innocent lives upturned by conflict in Ukraine. Yuriy offers a poignant reminder of the unnoticed battles and unseen victims caught in the crossfire of war. You can email Yuriy, ask him questions or simply send him a message of support: [email protected]   You can help Yuriy and his family by donating to his GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-yuriys-family  Yuriy’s Podbean Patron sign-up to give once or regularly: https://patron.podbean.com/yuriy   Buy Yuriy a coffee here: https://bmc.link/yuriymat  ----more---- TRANSCRIPT: (Podbean app users can enjoy closed captions)   It is March 11.  Right now I'm stationed in Kyiv. I'll tell you more about what I'm doing later. Today's conversation isn't about we, despite constant rocket shelling, it's almost a peaceful city. Shops are open, cars are stuck in traffic for hours, and the subway is crowded. Compared to the east like kiv, where even during rush hour, the subway has plenty of empty seats and most businesses more complicated when selling hot dogs have long closed. Kyiv looks like a fairytale city.  But that's a false illusion. The city is full of ruins from shelling, strong fortifications are being built around it around the clock in case of a new Russian advance on the capital. Patrols walk with streets and air raid sirens blare daily. But for me, the main sign that war is very close to Kyiv is not all this but a simple school backpack on a little child. Let me explain.  I arrived in Kyiv, walked down the street to the headquarters, and accidentally noticed and ate year old boy with a UNICEF blue backpack. Most of you fortunately don't know what it is, but for me it's a sign of terrible distress. UNICEF is a United Nation foundation that helps children. I don't really know how well or poorly they do it, but they exist. I've never spoken to employees of this foundation, but I've seen this back packs before it was in Iraq and the heat of the war against ISIS in a huge refugee camp.  In the middle of wet camp stood a huge tent in the army. They set up filled barracks like that, but there it was, a school. Before the classes started, hundreds of children from the entire camp ran to the stand and many of them had these blue backpacks. One of the school teachers then told me that these backpacks are given to walls who have nothing left, to children whose parents have lost everything and have no savings even to buy a bag, a couple of pencils and notebooks for their child. And also to those who have been left without parents altogether.  I look at the children with these backpacks and almost cried ordinary girls and boys who, because of some savages from ISIS, were left without a home, without their usual environments, often even without parents. And now the same children with the same backpacks are in my country, in my city. Because the savages have come to us too.

March 6th 2024 Yuriy shares his firsthand account of the devastation caused by Russian missile attacks in Ukraine. Discussing the destruction of residential buildings and the loss of civilian lives in recent shellings, he highlights the suffering and calls for justice for the Russian invaders. You can email Yuriy, ask him questions or simply send him a message of support: [email protected]   You can help Yuriy and his family by donating to his GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-yuriys-family  Yuriy’s Podbean Patron sign-up to give once or regularly: https://patron.podbean.com/yuriy   Buy Yuriy a coffee here: https://bmc.link/yuriymat  ----more---- TRANSCRIPT: (Podbean app users can enjoy closed captions)   It is March 6th.  When a multi-story residential building is hit by a missile, the explosion can be heard several miles away. The sound accompanies the blessed wave. When comes The audible ringing over shattered glass windows, shatter, broken into thousands of teeny shards by the impact of a missile. The cries of the people living in the building are not heard. Although, I'm sure that the pain and fear experienced it by wars who survive, canel them to scream as they never have before in their lives. But the concrete and brick of where building muffled these cries, preventing them from escaping outside.  Rescuers working to clear the rubble of buildings destroyed by Russians arrange moments of complete silence at regular intervals. They switch off all machinery, fall silent themselves, stand still, trying to hear the voices of the living from under the rebel. You know what the Russians are doing during this time? They are improving their missiles so that Ukrainian rescuers hear these voices as rarely as possible so that every salvo kills as many civilians as possible.  It seems to me that in the military, I'm in greater safety when civilian people. When children and the elderly, I have weapons, everyone around me has weapons, we have shelters, and overall the Russians are not fighting so much against the army as against peaceful people bombarding Ukrainian cities and towns with rockets and bumps. A few days ago, I was in my hometown of Kharkiv. Back in the summer, people began to return there, who fled in the first days of the great war from the threat of city's occupation. Now, Kharkiv is empty again, and all because of daily missile attacks in which adults and children constantly die. The same goes for Odessa and other cities. The Russians simply destroy residential buildings along with the people inside. This is we strategy make the lives of the Ukrainians a daily hell. The Russians call this fraternal assistance. Their fraternal assistance kills babies with their mothers, makes children orphans and leaves thousands of widows. We lack air defense systems to cover the sky over the entire Ukraine. We lack modern weapons to drive the occupiers out of our land, but I swear these monsters will answer for everything. I really want everything in Russia to explode and burn as Ukrainian cities explode and burn. I want them to go to bed every evening and not know if they will wake up in the morning. Somewhere in the country of killers, and maurauders lives my brother, my nephews, girls I once loved, men who will once my friends. But I don't p any of them anymore. The rockets and bombs coming from Russia kill not only people, they kill in those who survive the feeling that Russians are also human beings. Right now, Russians are turning Ukrainians into a whole nation of people who hate them and who will actually destroy Russia and Russians out of first for revenge, because the Russians have turned out to be cannibals. And they will get everything they deserve.