“A month and a half has passed since I returned from the war. I know that it is impossible to say the word “war”, he was banned. <...> So this is a war: our Russian army shoots at the Ukrainian one, and it shoots in response, shells and rockets explode there.

Photo: Reuters / Scanpix / Leta; Archive of Pavel Filavev War in Ukraine through the eyes of a Russian soldier: a mess, mediocre command and unwillingness to kill The story of the Russian paratrooper about the state of the army and affairs at the front after two months spent in Ukraine “A month and a half has passed since I returned from the war. I know that it is impossible to say the word “war”, he was banned.