Day 19
Starting off the day with random thoughts: Putin’s deification proceeds way beyond Hitlerism, Stalinism. One can resist only in terms of the identity that is...
Day 18
Map c/o Critical Threats Russia has lost the war, and the map above is misleading. The same goes for dozens of forecasts and studies published by Institute...
Day 17
Photo c/o Historic Photographs. A German officer and an NCO wearing portable sound locating apparatae to detect enemy aircraft (this was a type of early...
Day 16
Illustration by Michelle and Nicole Feldman *** There’s a superabundance of documentary material on every aspect of what has brought Russia to “point zero”...
Day 15
Illustration by Mykhailo Aleksandrov *** I have never been to Mariupol and have no desire to go there. A friend of mine from Dnipro has a brother there, who...
Day 14
Illustration c/o Clodia Barvinskaya Over the last two weeks, Russia’s “further military invasion” has followed the script of the latest post-apocalyptic...
Day 13
The Dragon, by Evgeny Schwartz. The puppet theatre in Magnitogorsk staged the play in 1979. The same Viktor Shraiman (from Kharkiv) presented The Very Same...
Day 12
The seam on the left heel side of my right shoe fell apart a couple of weeks ago. Ordinarily, I would have chucked out the pair and bought new shoes. But...
Day 11
It goes like this: Putin's main mistake was that he was sure Ukrainians would not fight.Ukraine’s main mistake was thinking the West would fight. The West’s...
Day 10
Testing out flight helmets, c/o Old Photos of the World Lots of nerdy military updates w/ maps about the mess on Substack. Here’s one, if you’re interested....
Day 9
Photo c/o Dmytro Kuleba, c/o Reuters... Borodyanka, sometimes spelled Borodianka, is an urban-type settlement in Kyiv region and the administrative center of...
Day 8
Russia’s new flag in a couple of months At around 01.40 this morning, I awoke to the sound of very loud explosions (at least four) and flashes of light ....
Day 7
So, that pink blob pouring down from southern Belarus towards Kyiv should be our main concern, according to the Institute for the Study of War. The New York...
End of Hostilities?
There has been some chatter, mostly in Russian billionaire circles, about different people volunteering to help broker a peace agreement between Russia and...
Day 6
Evening rush hour on Volodymyrska Street on February 28, 2022 Rather as one keeps tonguing a sore tooth to see if it still hurts, I took a boo at how the...
Day 5
Photo: A mother and her son push a baby carriage loaded down with fresh water jugs down an empty street in the center of Kyiv shortly after a weekend curfew...
Day 4
Illustration c/o Novaya Gazeta It’s almost 04:00 and I’m awake, sort of. I wedged a piece of salo between my gum and sore tooth last night, and it worked....
Day 3
It’s about 4:00 a.m. in Kyiv. The latest news is fighting in and around Vasylkiv Airbase, about 40 kilometers southeast of capital. Ukraine’s military says...
Day 2 (update)
Walk to work was uneventful. Air-raid sirens and lots of gun-toting civvies in the center of town. Hanna sez it’s Battle for Kyiv Day. She just posted a vid...
Day 2
It’s was a quiet night in Kyiv, until around 4:30 when I heard the sound of a jet, that is, one (1) jet, flying overhead. That was followed 30 seconds later...
