This date will go down in history. The treacherous invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine occurred on February 24, 2022, at four in the morning of Kyiv time. Just like in the song it was sung: "... at exactly four o’clock Kyiv was bombed, we were announced that the war had begun. The war began at dawn in order to kill more people. Parents were sleeping, their children were sleeping, when Kyiv began to bomb." I quoted everything correctly, yes, Konstantin Ernst? After all, you have our chief specialist in "old songs about the main"? By the way, what performance do you like more - Claudia Shulzhenko or Mark Bernes?
Although, apparently, Konstantin, you more like the performance of Russian pilots who drop tons of bombs on peacefully sleeping Ukrainian cities. I wish Shulzhenko and Bernes were surprised if they were told about this. Not just surprised, they would be horrified. We all were horrified - but not you, Konstantin Ernst. Your TV channel explained: Russian bombs erasing Ukrainian cities from the face of the earth is a fight against Nazism. And for this you, Konstantin Ernst, were quite rightly subjected to international sanctions.
Among the numerous videos, which captured captured Russian military personnel, there is such . The soldier miraculously escaped, they killed everyone around. During his interrogation, they ask him: "And in the neighboring village, what unit was standing?" He replies: "Orchestra." They even asked him, because they probably didn’t believe his ears: "What kind of orchestra?" Yes, indeed: on the first day of the war, together with regular units, the border crossed the combined military orchestra, for the parade in Khreshchatyk, apparently. Blitzkrieg was planned, but something, as we know, went wrong. Interestingly, the orchestra is still in the village of Kirishi in anticipation of the victorious march or was it already returned back?
Former Minister of Culture of Russia, and now presidential adviser Vladimir Medinsky in Belarus during negotiations with the Ukrainian delegation (it is necessary to discuss the conditions for surrender!) Said : "Moscow did not change the goal in negotiations with Kiev - it wants to achieve an" agreement on generation "and make Ukraine peaceful, neutral and friendly." Yes, after everything that you have done, Ukraine will never be friendly to you! And you know what else Medinsky said? The Kommersant newspaper transfers : “According to Mr. Medinsky, the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations on the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations on the topic of“ denacing Ukraine ”develops a rather strange” situation, since representatives of the Ukrainian delegation believe “that there are no Nazi formations in Ukraine and this is not a topic for modern Ukraine”.
That is, they themselves invented, they themselves believed in it, but now they are surprised that they are not understood! They also composed a swastika for themselves - so that it was easier to fight with "Ukrainian Nazism" existing only in their heads. The representative of Turkey, who tried to mediate in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, said that it was possible to briefly go on all points of the requirements put forward by Russia and for each one was able to find the opportunity to find a compromise, but it was impossible to discuss the point of “denazification”, since not only Turkish or Ukrainian representatives, but even Russians did not really understand what was meant. So, we declare the Ukrainian people "fraternal" and proceed to the destruction of the civilian population. We carry out "denazification" by the methods that Ukraine still remembers - when the Nazis really occupied it. German.
They are not shy in international stands. The constant representative of Russia at the UN Vasily Nebenzya, without blinking an eye, says : "Mariupol hides a lot of evidence of the crimes of Ukrainian radicals, so they cling to him so much." So he said: "Clinging!" Ukrainians heroically defend their city from foreign invaders - it turns out that they "cling"! He also called the radicals. What impudent ones, they are not surrendered!
People around the world saw evil in its pure form. Evil with a capital letter
The boundaries of Russia, according to the Putin concept, do not end anywhere. And now the Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says : "This is far from about Ukraine as about the world order. The current crisis is a fateful moment, an epoch -making moment in modern history, since it reflects the battle in the broadest sense of the word for how the world order will look." Here it is: they decided to put a new one in the world order. And now they threaten the world to send rockets there, then here. For example: "If Georgia refuses to allow Russian inspectors to American biolaboratories located on its territory, then Russia has every right to strike a missile blow on them."
As a child, I saw a running chicken with a severed head, and this made a great impression on me. My country, alas, is reminiscent of this chicken now. It seems to move more, the sounds are making, but it is already clear: this is the end.
No matter what the Zakharovs, Nebenzi and Lavrovs mutter there, the European and American audiences know the truth, they saw everything close -up, they really froze in horror. People around the world saw evil in its pure form. Evil with a capital letter. “Everything is not so simple” - it doesn't work anymore. Everything was simplified to the limit and cleared up. Therefore, when I read that they will sign the agreement that Putin will agree to “roll back” the situation in mid-February, stop the bombing, crawl into the “DPR-LNR”, and immediately remove the sanctions, it becomes ridiculous. They will not be removed! Sanctions are the smaller that should be worried about the Russian regime. Because humanity will face a very specific task - to defeat evil. So, the new Nuremberg, the complete demilitarization of the country (not Ukraine, but Russia), the ban on the regular army, the destruction of weapons of mass destruction, and so on, and so on. And painfully long, painfully difficult enlightenment of the population.
And we all carry this load.
Andrey Malgin - journalist and blogger
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